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Google may be forced to censor 'Torrent' and 'Megaupload'
The French Supreme Court may force Google to remove terms including 'Torrent', 'Rapidshare' and 'Megaupload' from its Instant and Autocomplete search tools.The search engine has been embroiled in a back-and-forth on the matter with the French music industry group SNEP (that's the Syndicat National de l'Edition Phonographique, Francophiles) since early 2010.The reason being, SNEP says, that autocompleting 'torrent' or the name of a filesharing site after an artist name is tantamount to facilitating piracy. Sneppy snepsIt hasn't gone well for SNEP over the past couple of years – two lower...
Published By: Tech Radar - Thursday, 19 July, 2012
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