Torrent sites blocked by Google Instant

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Until today, when searching for an album title, Google “suggested” related keywords such as torrent, bitTorrent and similar, from today the Mountain View search engine has ushered in a new era.
Results immediately visible through Google Instant that relate to possible attempts to carry out acts of online piracy have in fact been blocked and filtered. Google, in short, will no longer suggest to users – while typing their search query – “album name torrent” or “movie name torrent”, thus trying to make life harder for those trying to illegally download copyrighted material. copyright.
Although the initiative is commendable, it should be emphasized that saying “torrent” does not automatically mean “illegal download,” since these are primarily file transfer systems with entirely legal practical applications. The fact that these systems are sometimes used for less noble purposes should not lead to thinking of illegality as a whole.
Not by chance, a timely response came from Simon Morris, head of BitTorrent Inc., who points out that searching on Google for the term “Bittorrent” rightly returns many links that have nothing to do with illegal practices.
Just consider that some emerging music groups use exactly this data exchange protocol to distribute their albums: this is a legal application of the system which, however, due to this Google filter, would be penalized, as noted by RapidShare. Similarly, torrents are normally used to disseminate open source software: this is also legal.
However, as TorrentFreak points out, this censorship in Google Instant is not exactly fair: not all “incriminated” terms according to Google’s logic have been filtered, since it’s still possible to see among search suggestions “The Pirate Bay” and “Madiafire”, just to name two glaring examples.
In light of all this, hypotheses described as “conspiracy theories” are rising from many quarters – in the galaxy of those who have invested in companies and businesses that use or create torrents for legal purposes – that this Google move is not really about eradicating piracy but a (more or less tacit) agreement with the major record, film, and gaming companies. Or more simply, Google is taking action to avoid being accused of encouraging illegal downloads by giving suggestions during search.
In this regard, it is recommended to explore the issue related to copyright, by taking a look at point 10 of the article “Google attacks duplicate content, low-quality and aggregated sites, says Matt Cutts” published on January 24, 2011, on the pages of FullPress.