10 out of 10 for language skills, Google, and minus several million for showing us that any idiot with a lawyer can succeed in censoring a service that we all use on a daily basis.
[From the page with the applicable DMCA notice]
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Question: Can search engines be liable for copyright infringement by providing hyperlinks to search results?
Answer: Some Internet search engines have been getting "takedown" requests under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Section 512 (see DMCA Safe Harbor Provisions for more information). The DMCA provides a safe harbor to information location tools that comply with takedown notices, but it is not settled whether they would be liable for copyright infringement if they did not use the safe harbor. Arguably, computer-generated pages of links do not materially facilitate infringing activity or put their hosts on notice of copyright infringements.
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Google just seems to be playing safe, it seems.
- Sandip
-- Sandip Bhattacharya http://www.sandipb.net sandip at puroga.com Puroga Technologies Pvt. Ltd. http://www.puroga.com
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