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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
Everything I have read and experienced suggests Google (along with the others like Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo/Tumblr) all basically hate porn.
Worse the ones they tolerate unofficially are only the tubes which publish things freely. They see them as "the leaders of the industry" and basically they are right.
So now some realism here. Do you really think Google is going to go up against all these tubes and pirates (who they see as the leaders of the industry) on your behalf and mine? Come on now. They don't care about you and the people you want them to harm are the only ones who even have a chance at successfully suing them.
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I disagree. Google has been trying to deal with this clash of ideals since it started ('We hate porn but everyone searches for fucking porn and we're a fucking search engine!
Argh!'). Big G doesn't give a flying diddlyfuck who might sue them, and in what court? Most of these tubes are registered in Cyprus and based God knows where. No, this has more to do with the above mentioned conflict they have been in since Day 1.
G is pinned down by its' own ethos: the best 'user experience' gets the highest ranking. But what if that 'best user experience' is coming from a pirate site? Hmmm....Instant conflict. (I'm sure if there was a mainstream movie theater company that was offering free admission to every Hollywood blockbuster - just pay for the popcorn - they would rank #1 in Google, too. What's a better 'user experience' than not paying for something?)
So all this means Google is PROFITING somehow from their relationship with the tubes and filelockers. End of story.
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Originally Posted by Arnox
Because Google owns YouTube, they're probably going to be pretty careful about the idea of banning sites that have a lot of DMCA requests: especially video sites that allow users to upload content. I imagine that YouTube gets a heap of takedown notices, so it's not going to be in their best interests to have a blanket-ban policy on any site that receives DMCA requests.
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Yes true but there is a clear distinction between sexually-explicit Adult material and YouTube.