Google Based Torrent Search Engine
Monday, April 20, 2009
One of the claims from those defending and supporting The Pirate Bay in the recent trial (but also other similar sites), is that the entertainment industry is suing something that’s not much different from a search engine. Using Google’s Custom Search Engine, someone has created a Google based torrent search engine.
The idea is not by any means new; you could do this before by using certain types of queries (simply adding “filetype:torrent” to your query works), but it’s a nice time to spotlight the fact that yes, you don’t really need sites like Mininova or The Pirate Bay to find torrents; you can simply use GoogleGoogle reviews which crawls thousands of torrent tracker sites, big and small, and get direct links to torrents. Want a screener of current hit, X-Men origins - Wolverine? Use this Google query and you’ve got it.
Is Google, then, the next in line to be sued for copyright infringement, or assisting in making copyright content available? If it weren’t too big to be sued, it probably would be.
