[digibo]

Comparing is not judging or blaming. The GP suggests that both TPB and Google are in a gray area, which I partially agree with, but I think they are in different gray areas.

TPB, as described, is in a moral gray area - "We know some of the uploaded stuff is immoral" - so they delete what's immoral (their judgement - child porn/copyright stuff/anything between), they arbitrarily decide what you see

Google is in an algorithmic gray area - "The algorithm decides what's best for you, we want the best for you, but we won't judge what's best for you" - so they do nothing and hope for the best (and least damage), the algorithm arbitrarily decides what you see

Both seem like different routes to the same hell.

Edit: Spelling, clearer wording

[komali2]

It's not just the moral issue, but a legal one.

TPB said "We are not responsible for the content people upload." Except then they deleted CP, probably for many good as well as self-serving reasons: CP is bad, obviously, but also brings bad press (hard to get the public on the side of piracy when it leads to ease of CP access), as well as the holy wrath of pretty much every criminal federal agency in countries around the world, as opposed to just whatever branch of whatever agency is in charge of copyright protection. Doubt they could get hosting in any country if they didn't take the CP down.

But by taking CP down, they demonstrated that they do and can monitor content, that they can take it down, that they do take responsibility for at least some of it. Legally that's a shot in the foot, I thought, but they still find hosting so who knows.

[bjourne]

Thank you for explaining. That's what I meant by the uploader defense. I'm fairly sure Google removes CP from their search results so obviously they can exercise some control over their content. So they can't blame it all on the algorithm.