Premier file share indexers: Google, Yahoo!
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Last month, “The Pirate Bay guys may soon be on their uppers, and the feral entertainment cartels are also going after other indexing sites like there`s no tomorrow,” said p2pnet, going on:
“Which for them, of course, is true.
“Indexing sites are exactly that. Sites that index. They don`t actually host anything. They merely point to where something may be. Or not.
“But it doesn`t really matter because the P2P networks are only where it`s at only for a limited number of file sharers, although Hollywood and the Big 4 record labels would like the world to believe they believe that`s the whole ballgame as they try to pretend the Light Nets, as I`m going to call darknets from now on, don`t exist.”
But there is, we said, one site that’s an excellent source of links and which is seemingly immune from Korporate Kopyright Klan attentions.
Google.
As we post this, The Pirate Bay, soon to become another korporate bidniz, is offline but, “even if the Pirate Bay sinks, putting an end to file-sharing isn’t so simple,” said alibaba.com recently, continuing:
“Waiting in the wings to absorb the site’s audience are dozens of second-string bittorrent tracker and index sites that have avoided the Pirate Bay’s level of notoriety, including Mininova, isoHunt and Demonoid.
“And according to Ben Edelman, a professor at Harvard’s Business School focused on Internet regulation, that longer-tail assortment of piracy outlets means the starting point for finding pirated content has shifted to an even more resilient source: Google .”
Google, “now can and does do what the Pirate Bay has always done,” the story has him stating. “And if they’re prosecuted, they would have much more interesting arguments in their defense.”
The story also quotes BigChampagne’s Eric Garland as saying Google and Yahoo have always been a starting point.
“I’ve argued for years that the real battle rights holders are fighting isn’t with individual users or file-sharing sites, but with search,” he says in the story. “As long as there’s robust search that allows people to find the titles they’re seeking, you will have this problem, period.”
Garland says he’s found users begin their searches for pirated movies on search engines as often as any source, including the Pirate Bay, which means, “preventing a user from downloading copyrighted files would mean not simply shutting down the Pirate Bay, but every one of the lesser-traveled sites that Google or Yahoo! provide links to”.
(Cheers, catflap)
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
is offline – The Pirate Bay offline: `Something is broken`, August 10, 2009
p2pnet – Cartel-proof P2P indexing site, July 29, 2009
alibaba.com – Why Google Is The New Pirate Bay, June 4, 2009
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August 11th, 2009 at 11:52 am
Its WHACK_A_MOLE, they kill off TPB, 2-3 more will pop up to replace it. They cant win this way!