{"id":413,"date":"2003-09-03T09:44:54","date_gmt":"2003-09-03T09:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2003\/09\/google_pull_kaz\/"},"modified":"2003-09-03T09:44:54","modified_gmt":"2003-09-03T09:44:54","slug":"google_pull_kaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/google_pull_kaz\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Pull Kazaa Lite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlineblog.com\/archives\/2003_08_31_onlineblog_archive.html#106253602575638922\">seems<\/a> that Google has bowed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chillingeffects.org\/dmca512\/notice.cgi?NoticeID=789\">pressure<\/a> to remove listings for sites that distribute Kazaa Lite.<br \/>\nIf you search Google for &#8220;Kazaa&#8221;, &#8220;Kazaa Lite&#8221; and variants thereof, you get a notice:<br \/>\n<i>&#8220;In response to a complaint we received under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 8 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint for these removed results&#8221;<\/i><br \/>\nOf course irony isn&#8217;t even the word to use about the complainant, Sharman Networks. They produce the full version of Kazaa complete with spyware, popup ads and the like. Kazaa Lite is a hacked version of this software, and they&#8217;re arguing that their copyright has been infringed. Of course the fact that the entire purpose of Kazaa is to infringe other people&#8217;s copyright is neither here nor there&#8230;<br \/>\nThe other irony is that the link Google is putting in to the complaint, lists all the sites that Sharman Networks want banned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that Google has bowed to pressure to remove listings for sites that distribute Kazaa Lite. If you search Google for &#8220;Kazaa&#8221;, &#8220;Kazaa Lite&#8221; and variants thereof, you get a notice: &#8220;In response to a complaint we received under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 8 result(s) from this page. If you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}