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Culture Secretary Sajid Javid has threatened to introduce legislation

if Google doesn’t stop promoting pirate sites

         

Leosghost

9:25 pm on Sep 3, 2014 (gmt 0)

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“Search engines also have to play their part. They must step up and show willing,” Sajid Javid told the BPI at their AGM yesterday.

“That’s why Vince Cable and I have written to Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, asking them to work with you to stop search results sending people to illegal sites. And let me be perfectly clear: if we don’t see real progress, we will be looking at a legislative approach.”



The BPI has sent Google 93 million infringement notices – more than any other single business has received.



[theregister.co.uk...]

aristotle

3:54 pm on Sep 4, 2014 (gmt 0)

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Here is another quote from the article:
With a wide range of Netflix, Now TV and Spotify (and their many clones) promoting legal access to movies TV and music, companies are livid that Google still promotes pirate sites in its “organic” search results, despite fully knowing that they’re criminal operations.

It looks like Google would be able to fix this fairly easily. And I don't understand why they wouldn't want to fix it, even without being prodded.