The Copyright Lobby Absolutely Loves Child Pornography. "Child pornography is great," the man said enthusiastically.
"Politicians do not understand file sharing, but they understand child pornography, and they want to filter that to score points with the public. Once we get them to filter child pornography, we can get them to extend the block to file sharing. " The date was May 27, 2007, and the man was Johan Schlüter, head of the Danish Anti-Piracy Group (Antipiratgruppen). He was speaking in front of an audience from which the press had been banned; it was assumed to be copyright industry insiders only. It wasn’t. Google Now Censors The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, 4Shared and More. Google has expanded its search blacklist to include many of the top file-sharing sites on the Internet, including The Pirate Bay.
The changes were quietly processed and appear to be broader than previous additions. Google's blacklist prevents the names of sites appearing in their Instant and Autocomplete search services, while the pages themselves remain indexed.
US Government seizures - ICE.