Google is getting sick and tired of the entertainment industry stamping its feet and
demanding that it do more to block pirates from its search results.
TorrentFreak reports that
Google’s U.K. policy manager Theo Bertram said during a panel on online
piracy this week that
blocking links from search results is mostly a pointless exercise because there are simply so many other links that pop up in their place. The better solution, he said, would be for advertisers to give the company a list of websites where they did not want their ads to appear and ask Google to make sure that those sites are starved of advertising revenues.
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