This article mentions how
Goggle is in a way ‘enforcing’ copyright of its adds related to torrent sites.
Through the article it explains that a person posted his own work through a
torrent site, and Google wouldn't allow it. The author wants his work to be
viewed ‘free’ and figured torrent sites would be the easiest way to get it on
the web. Since torrent sites have the background of having infringing content, Google
no matter if the content is legitimate will be deemed a service violating
because of the word ‘torrent’. It is hard to find a fine line between what is
under copyright law and what is not. Google in my opinion is skipping even
looking thoroughly through all information on ‘pirate/torrent sites’. Sure some
of the information may not be in a sense legal, but almost every site on the
internet has come type of infringed content.
“Copying
data from an existing compilation was therefore not “piracy”; it was not unfair
or unjust; it was purposefully privileged in order to advance the goals of the
constitutional power to make exclusive grants—the advancement of progress and
creative uses of the data”(Benkler, 2006, p.449). This quote from our textbook,
section in the book explains the outline of piracy according to the constitution
with a case that was handled from the Supreme court. I find the ending part of
the quotation relates to the advancement of knowledge with the sharing of
information as a whole. It can relate to the Google article as people want to
share free information and should be allowed to without being shutdown due to
the word ‘torrent’.
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