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Originally Posted by Krystian Galaj
That's the point - how would they learn what to enter in the address bar? If you enter anything but proper URL, it's used as the search term and goes through the same search as if you entered it into Google, so results with rapidshare in them would be filetered out as well.
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It's called "word of mouth". A lot of new sites are first heard of by people through recommendations and links in websites, forums, blogs, e-mails, IMs, or real life as opposed to search engine results. Not to mention the possibility of backlash... I know for a fact that if Google removed every piracy website I would compile a list of all the good such websites I was aware of and post them in every public forum I participated in that was discussing the issue and did not have a policy against such links. I imagine others would do something similar; I can already imagine the protest videos being uploaded to video hosts with website names scrolling by.
The internet does not take kindly to censorship.
Also, rapidshare is not a torrent site. It is an online storage site which hosts content other people download, and is often used to distribute copyrighted material without authorization. Torrents operate on completely different principles.