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Originally Posted by Krystian Galaj
How do people find the torrents though? Through Google. What would happen with sites like rapishare or megaupload, if Google started removing pages containing links to them from search results? What would happen with torrent downloading?
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I can tell you exactly what would happen. Google would be charged with censorship and competitors would crop up to serve users what Google omits. In fact, there are already search engines that focus solely on indexing content from locker sites and/or torrent sites, thus they're typically much better for finding that kind of content than Google. Google brings up a lot of extra results that might seem relevant compared to your search terms but really aren't what you're looking for. So the effect would be moot and Google would lose a competitive edge. As it stands, Google already removes the occasional search result when companies complain and invoke the DMCA. To keep from being charged with censorship, Google puts up the full DMCA notice, which users can read and see the links that were removed. There's nothing to gain by Google not indexing these websites and it would be illegal to force them not to.