Yahoo Can't Find the Pirate Bay
on 20080218 at 6:17 PM.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/18/yahoo-cant-find-the-pirate-bay
Why don't you just move yourself to China, Yahoo?
The Pirate Bay is one of many large BitTorrent tracker indexes and known well in the online file sharing community. The Pirate Bay allows users to search for and download torent files which contain the information necessary for users to then download the data files from other users. This includes torrents to unlicensed copies of copyrighted material.
It apparently depends on what you mean by Yahoo!
Different countries have different search engine result pages, just like how information on Falun Gong will come up on US googles, the actual Pirate Bay website will come up on Yahoo!Canada where as if I went to Yahoo.com while on SFSU campus the first result is a wikipedia entry about The Pirate Bay. Comments are reporting that its not only filtered in the US though, places like Denmark, Japan, Toronto, Sweden, Israel, Spain...
Not only is Yahoo blocking the actual Pirate Bay site from turning up on the results page the registration confirmation email from The Priate Bay won't reach your yahoo.com account either if that is the email you tried to register with.
On the other hand though, those who argue that the people who use The Pirate Bay probably don't find it via yahoo search have a point. People who don't know the url to The Pirate Bay probably likely don't care/use it. If you type in things like 'pirate' and 'torrent' you would still get websites that mention The Pirate Bay and what it is. There's still some information there, it is only the site's direct url that's been blocked. But is this the first step you take to the authoritarian web?
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Why don't you just move yourself to China, Yahoo?
The Pirate Bay is one of many large BitTorrent tracker indexes and known well in the online file sharing community. The Pirate Bay allows users to search for and download torent files which contain the information necessary for users to then download the data files from other users. This includes torrents to unlicensed copies of copyrighted material.
It apparently depends on what you mean by Yahoo!
Different countries have different search engine result pages, just like how information on Falun Gong will come up on US googles, the actual Pirate Bay website will come up on Yahoo!Canada where as if I went to Yahoo.com while on SFSU campus the first result is a wikipedia entry about The Pirate Bay. Comments are reporting that its not only filtered in the US though, places like Denmark, Japan, Toronto, Sweden, Israel, Spain...
Not only is Yahoo blocking the actual Pirate Bay site from turning up on the results page the registration confirmation email from The Priate Bay won't reach your yahoo.com account either if that is the email you tried to register with.
On the other hand though, those who argue that the people who use The Pirate Bay probably don't find it via yahoo search have a point. People who don't know the url to The Pirate Bay probably likely don't care/use it. If you type in things like 'pirate' and 'torrent' you would still get websites that mention The Pirate Bay and what it is. There's still some information there, it is only the site's direct url that's been blocked. But is this the first step you take to the authoritarian web?
