Not that I agree with the Pirate Bay decision... Pirate Bay also hosts BitTorrent trackers, correct? So many of the torrents found on Pirate Bay have trackers hosted at thepiratebay.com domain, and Google doesn't do this.
Bill On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Seth Johnson <seth.john...@realmeasures.dyndns.org> wrote: > > (And Vint Cerf works for them, too. -- Seth) > > >> http://www.thepirategoogle.com/ > > > Bit Torrent Search > > Please Note: This site is not affiliated with Google, > it simply makes use of Google Custom Search to > restrict your searches to Torrent files. You can do > this with any regular Google search by appending your > query with filetype:torrent. This technique can be > used for any type of file supported by Google > (http://www.google.com/). > > The intention of this site is to demonstrate the > double standard that was exemplified in the recent > Pirate Bay Trial. Sites such as Google offer much the > same functionality as The Pirate Bay and other Bit > Torrent sites but are not targeted by media > conglomerates such as the IFPI as they have the > political and legal clout to defend themselves unlike > these small independent sites. > > This site is created in support of an open, neutral > internet accessible and equitable to all regardless > of political or financial standing. > > Cheers! (Contact: i...@thepirategoogle.com) > > --- > > (Also see my comments to the FTC's Workshop on "P2P Risks" -- Seth) > >> http://www.ftc.gov/os/comments/p2pfileshare/OL-100037.pdf > > "The description of "P2P filesharing applications" presented in this > workshop's call for participation offers nothing to distinguish KaZaA, > Grokster or Gnutella from the basic functions of the Internet and > ordinary, generally used operating systems. It also makes no mention > of he core functionality that these applications actually do provide: > search and discovery of the locations of files. Sharing files among a > group of users is a basic network capability that operating systems > and networks already provide." > > Workshop: > http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/workshops/filesharing/index.htm > > Public Comments: > http://www.ftc.gov/os/comments/p2pfileshare/index.shtm > > _______________________________________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers > -- Bill McCormick _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
