The Popular web search-engine Yahoo has recently removed a popular torrent weBsite from their search engine (My conscience won' t permit me to post the url, followed by a .com).

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So the great question is this. Is it Yahoo' s place to hinder the access of potentially legal information, taking on the responsibility to uphold the copyrighted information of people they have no affiliation with?

Eddy, you crack me up

Anyway, back on topic, I don' t think Yahoo should be getting into this whole mess. What may have started as just removing this site, may well go on to become a mass crusade to remove similar sites from their engines, which would be impossible anyway, as they spring out everyday. If anything, they should just stay on the sidelines, as they might end hurting themselves in the long run, as lots of people only hit the search engines to find content from similar sites as the one erased, and may end up just migrating to google instead.

Is not like they have any rights over the copyrighted stuff anyway, or will even get something out of it for acting as the " goody two-shoes" of the internet.

Eddy, you crack me up

It' s really not suprising coming from Yahoo. They work on a manual indexing method versus Google' s (and others) automatic web crawler indexing. In order for any site to appear on Yahoo search, they need to submit a request to be listed. As far as I know, Yahoo only accepted on average about 1 in 3 requests for listing on their search engine. So given Yahoo' s nature, they' re well within their rights to do this.

This will do little to no damage to TPB or any similar website. They' re crackers and will inherently find a way to get around this. Heck this is nothing compared to the DNS filtering they were facing a couple of weeks ago and they not only laughed it off but used it to their advantage.
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/02/12/pirate-bay-laughs-ifpi-internet

Well, Yahoo isn' t some governent run free-for-all. It' s a company. People own it. They are well within their rights to block or list whatever they want. The market will respond accordingly.

LOL, ...the top result when searching for ' piratebay' is the freakin' Pirate Bay' wiki page.

Good job Yahoo

well with the pirate bay you can' t really say it is used for legal torrents. It is called the freaking PIRATE bay. It is obvious the purpose of the site is for illegal torrents.

I dont really agree with this censorship on Yahoo' s side, but, well, as somebody mentioned, they are a private company and can do whatever they want with their search engine. I just hope that Microsoft, Google, etc. won' t follow Yahoo' s example.