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Sharman Networks sue K++ developers, force Google to remove K++ links from results
This issue is very serious.
K++ is what until recently has been known as Kazaa Lite. K++ (aka KPP) has until recently been an extention to Kazaa Lite, and was recently integrated into a single product.
Kazaa Lite is a program built on top of regular Kazaa, which strips the Kazaa sponsor ads, and the spyware it installs (such as Gator etc). It also installs several hacks and improvements to improve the interface, networking and so on.
Sharman Networks, the owners of Kazaa, have sued the developers of Kazaa Lite and K++.
What is more frightening, that they sent notice to Google demanding that it removed any sites relating to Kazaa Lite, from it's search results.
This issue is very serious, since as of now, our search results are not free, but rather subject to legal problems. In general this shows how the Digital Millenium Act is capable of limiting access to information, which was previously thought to be free.
Google is thought by many as their "starting point" to the web. They trust the search engine to provide trust worthy information for them to start browsing .
If google can be censored, so can any other site, ranging from yahoo to the new york times.
What is amusing, is that though Google has complied, they have posted a notice explaining that certain search results have been removed in compliance with the DMCA, and posted a link to the complaint letter by Sharman Networks which... you guessed it - shows an ordered list of the results that should be blocked.
Way to go Google
K++ is what until recently has been known as Kazaa Lite. K++ (aka KPP) has until recently been an extention to Kazaa Lite, and was recently integrated into a single product.
Kazaa Lite is a program built on top of regular Kazaa, which strips the Kazaa sponsor ads, and the spyware it installs (such as Gator etc). It also installs several hacks and improvements to improve the interface, networking and so on.
Sharman Networks, the owners of Kazaa, have sued the developers of Kazaa Lite and K++.
What is more frightening, that they sent notice to Google demanding that it removed any sites relating to Kazaa Lite, from it's search results.
This issue is very serious, since as of now, our search results are not free, but rather subject to legal problems. In general this shows how the Digital Millenium Act is capable of limiting access to information, which was previously thought to be free.
Google is thought by many as their "starting point" to the web. They trust the search engine to provide trust worthy information for them to start browsing .
If google can be censored, so can any other site, ranging from yahoo to the new york times.
What is amusing, is that though Google has complied, they have posted a notice explaining that certain search results have been removed in compliance with the DMCA, and posted a link to the complaint letter by Sharman Networks which... you guessed it - shows an ordered list of the results that should be blocked.
Way to go Google
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