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Ernesto on April 30, 2009 The immensely popular BitTorrent client uTorrent recently added a Google powered torrent search engine to its website. For reasons unknown, Google appears to be blocking the use of its search technology on the site.
uTorrent has established itself as the client of choice for most BitTorrent users. In an attempt to bring in some much needed revenue, BitTorrent Inc. decided to add a search engine to its website using Google's custom search program. On the one hand this offers newcomers to BitTorrent a familiar interface to find all sorts of torrent files directly from the uTorrent homepage.
torrent files on sites such as The Pirate Bay and isoHunt. profits from this through search based ads that Google adds to the search results. This seems to be a win-win situation for everyone but for reasons unknown, Google no longer allows uTorrent to use the custom search program. When entering a keyword into the search box on the website the following error is returned (see picture). has now removed the search box but they have no clue why they have this problem with Google. No Google search for uTorrent utorrent google ban Simon Morris, BitTorrent's VP of Product Management told TorrentFreak that there is indeed a problem but that they yet have to find out the details. At this stage we can only guess at the reasoning behind the lack of functionality. Most BitTorrent sites are not allowed to serve Google ads because they link to copyrighted content, but since uTorrent was only linking to these sites indirectly through Google's own search engine, this seems less likely. Yet there are more BitTorrent oriented sites that have faced similar problems.
The Pirate Google, another website that uses Google's custom search had similar problems recently. uTorrent's search has been down for around 5 days now, so one could expect a technical issue to be resolved by now, but until we hear back from Google the actual cause is open to speculation. The net effect is the same though - uTorrent's revenue from this source isn't rising as planned. Update: We heard from "The Pirate Google" admin that Google did indeed block inbound queries from his site. He found a temporary workaround but this proves that Google is actively blocking (these) torrent related sites.
It's not like anyone would have needed this as finding torrents is very easy. Does someone know how much Google is paying to host copyrighted material on YouTube?
they have been awesome all these years and if they choose to turn against the internet.. DONT FUCK WITH US GOOGLE, WE WILL FUCK YOU BACK DOWN TO THE PIECE OF SHIT YOU STARTED AS.
Legal attack, cyber, hacker, propaganda from competitors, haters, crooked customers, cheaters, thieves, organized criminal gangs. Google lately has been accused by the record and movie industry lawyers of being the biggest torrent tracker. In the above comments, you can pick out the hater type easily. They see Google as standing in the way of total world computer domination by Microsoft, which is their dream.
And with regulators sniffing up Google's butt, they realize they need to clean up their actions. I wouldn't get so mad at Google, as much as you should realize that Torrents aren't legal. Google probably heard they were next, or figured that they better save their own skin.
if torrents themselves are illegal, then a case can be made that every means of storing or transporting any form of information is illegal... and I hate to tell you this, but your brain stores information. The system of holding and moving information should not. Just like the envelope is not responsible for it's contents, torrents are not responsible for what we download.
Explain to me what the difference is between google and the pirate bay if this is allowed to work? There is very little, and so it's shut down to make sure google isn't banned as well.
In Vancouver isoHunt owner Gary Fung is asking courts to rule his site legal. I talked to him this week and posted about it in a story and on my Digital Life blog. Have asked Google about the blocking and expect I'll be writing about its response.
Google wants to distance itself from "other" Torrent tracking sites. Google is trying to pretend that it is not like them, so that it won't get shut down as some of those sites have been.
Couldn't the fact that Google made this move, post TPB trial,, play in the favour of TPB crew, when they make their appeal? Its just like PB said, Google is just as guilty as them if not more so. Now Google cover their ass, when the trial is over and no one is looking at them, if not more so.
The only problem we have, as other techically knowing people already know, is that there is a huge difference between technology and breaking laws. That is, technology is just that, what people do with is isnt the creators fault. can be used to protect og to scare/kill it is up to the person using it. Heres a fun thought, when have law ever beaten techonlogys development. Try making a law against driving, and then see if anyone actually follows it :) Point being, that people like they decide what they use techonlogy for, decide what laws they follow and those they dont.
The only problem we have, as other techically knowing people already know, is that there is a huge difference between technology and breaking laws. That is, technology is just that, what people do with is isnt the creators fault. can be used to protect og to scare/kill it is up to the person using it. Heres a fun thought, when have law ever beaten technologies development. Try making a law against driving, and then see if anyone actually follows it :) Point being, that people like they decide what they use technology for, decide what laws they follow and those they dont.
Look what happend to TPB, they were pretty much like Google only for torrents, but Google do include torrents and they got even more indexed than TPB. They just want to stay under the radar so they dont get sued or anything.
Google needs help with its deal on orphan copyrighted books. MPAA/RIAA doesn't want to take Google to court because they might lose. The judge was wrong to say torrent files are illegal and he may have broken the law in doing so. TPB should have atleast tried to work with the takedown notices, to be sure it was covered by the safe harbor, the judge may have been right about that, its grey law at best so the higher courts will decide. Piracy is wrong but some of these new laws are almost as bad. Super long term copyrights/patents are bad for the world, just look back at want Edison tried to do 100 years ago.
Google will first start censoring out individual requests, then more and more sites, clients, maybe even IP domains and complete filetypes or start a blackword/blacklist far beyond it's current malware-warning-only scope. And after the censoring, we'll go the next step, which is already in place in germany, and prosecute without assumption of prior innocence in realtime on simply TRYING TO ACCESS CONTENT that MIGHT be forbidden, as per the definition of those who choose what they want to be forbidden.
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