Google buckles under power of DMCA
March 26th, 2008 admin Posted in News |
AN INQUIRER reader alerted us to very sinister things happening to Google.
A Google search for “Lucy Pinder Tape”, while providing several enlightening links, doesn’t provide users with as many results as it possibly could. An ominous little note at the bottom of the page reads: “in response to a complaint we received under the US digital millennium copyright act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page…”
Somehow Google, which is only a humble search engine after all, is being forced to filter information because of a local legal squabble. In this case, the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA), passed by the U.S. Congress in 1998, allegedly to bring copyright law up to date for electronic trade and content providers, is proving an impediment to free speech and access to information.
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