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by vonklaus 3978 days ago
I assume this is a joke. This would be terrifying. The MPAA are trying to stop google from fairly distributing pages they disagree with. Google is net neutrality and should act as a dumb pipe utility in the sense that it returns the most relevant info based on your search.

If google returned empty pages for something it didn't agree with, the implications would be appalling.

Google should do during the spectrum wars when they bid on spectrum and territory to leverage telecom co.s. They should threaten to back netflix or start a studio to make movies and content. They already have distribution and funds.

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I agree Google should return the best response to your search and not cut things out for bargaining points, but "dumb pipe utility" is incredibly off.
Google deliberately decided to downgrade the torrent sites ... so they lost all pretense at neutrality.