Thursday, October 23, 2014

Google changes 'to fight piracy' by highlighting legal sites

        The BBC News article titled "Google changes 'to fight piracy' by highlighting legal sites" talks about how google has implemented this new policy to help fight piracy. They have made their search engine more legitimate and legal. Even though the companies that want their name and label to come up first have to pay Google for this, it helps the user be less likely to download or stream illegal content. In the comments of this article someone wrote, "If it's not Google's responsibility to police its own remain whose responsibility is it? Governments? The Internet Police?" I thought this was an interesting point because Google itself is also a company that needs to make money and just like any other company they have every right and responsibility to have full control over their domain on the Internet. The music industry and entertainment sector of the web may not agree with Google's new policy. They may not have the funds or opportunity to pay Google for these 'pop ups' especially if they are a new band/company/label. Google may only be limiting who pops up on their search engine to those who can afford it, but is also limiting the amount of piracy, legitimacy and legality. 

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