Researchers Say Search Engines Can Diminish Online Piracy

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Researchers from Carnegie Melon have found that search engine results actually do diminish online piracy.

Our data show that relative to the non-manipulated (control) condition, the presence of pirate or legal links in search results strongly influences the behavior of both the general and college-aged populations: users are more likely to choose a legal option to acquire the movie when legal sites are promoted, and users are more likely to choose a pirate option when piracy links are promoted.
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It's amazing what happens when you have a two-thirds market share of global web searches, and are given the legal green light to obfuscate search results provided to the general public. Planet Earth, welcome to a literal corporat fascist state, where the only people who matter with regard to internet search results is Google's legal department.

Good God almighty the utter gullibility is hard to stomach.
 
We did a study on Carnegie Melon's study and have found out that everyone else in the world replied with, "No shit Sherlock."
 
From the article:

"To do this, we design a customized search engine that allows us to experimentally manipulate pirated and legal links in users’ search results."

Hence my Google comment. It's precisely what not only they but "all" major search engines have done in our country. E.g. try searching for a video clip on Bing and see how many results are returned beyond Youtube.
 
Yes, people are lazy and prefer convince.
Duh.
When piracy is as easy as a google or bing search its going to happen a lot more often then say, the old irc days where you had to get invited to the right channel to pirate.
Morpheus, Kazaa, Napster, those programs started it all.
Torrents, once called file swarm and used to distribute game demos to cut down hosting costs got repurposed for piracy.
Whoops.

Piracy dropping might also have something to do with steam sales for pc and sales and availability of music, movies and tv programs on sale on iTunes and Google Playstore. After all, if you know you've got the money and you can have it NOW it makes impulse buying that much harder to stop.
 
Why do researchers pursue topics that don't require empirical evidence for anyone outside of their profession? Are they lazy, or just bat-shit insane?
 
Megalith said:
Why do researchers pursue topics that don't require empirical evidence for anyone outside of their profession? Are they lazy, or just bat-shit insane?
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Both but you left out the big one. They get Government Grants...Always follow the money.
 
SGA76 said:
Piracy dropping might also have something to do with steam sales for pc and sales and availability of music, movies and tv programs on sale on iTunes and Google Playstore. After all, if you know you've got the money and you can have it NOW it makes impulse buying that much harder to stop.
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The main problem with legitimately purchasing media is DRM. Why would people buy a broken product when the non-broken one is free? It's also easier to download and doesn't require jumping through hoops such as accounts/passwords and payment methods. I avoid saving my CC with websites at all costs and everyone else should too; they can't be trusted and neither can their security. Until these problems are fixed piracy will remain superior.
 
SGA76 said:
Yes, people are lazy and prefer convince.
Duh.
When piracy is as easy as a google or bing search its going to happen a lot more often then say, the old irc days where you had to get invited to the right channel to pirate.
Morpheus, Kazaa, Napster, those programs started it all.
Torrents, once called file swarm and used to distribute game demos to cut down hosting costs got repurposed for piracy.
Whoops.

Piracy dropping might also have something to do with steam sales for pc and sales and availability of music, movies and tv programs on sale on iTunes and Google Playstore. After all, if you know you've got the money and you can have it NOW it makes impulse buying that much harder to stop.
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I'd be willing to bet you're pretty young if you believe that "Morpheus, Kazaa, Napster, those programs started it all.".
 
BillR said:
Both but you left out the big one. They get Government Grants...Always follow the money.
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Exactly, if someone is going to give you money for a "study" you are probably more likely to come up with data that supports their stance, however wrong or faulty it is.

"It has to be noted that Professor Telang and his colleagues received a generous donation from the MPAA for their research program. "

http://torrentfreak.com/search-engines-can-diminish-online-piracy-research-finds-140916/
 
I only read the abstract, but it appears their "control" was a non-manipulated version of their fake search engine.

Which seems like a bogus control. There are other ways to access things than a search engine.

Of course if you force people to use a search engine then it will matter if you alter the results.
 
timta2 said:
I'd be willing to bet you're pretty young if you believe that "Morpheus, Kazaa, Napster, those programs started it all.".
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No, they didn't START piracy, they started MASS piracy by making it easy for anyone who could click install start downloading music, movies and software.
Before that IRC was used quite a bit, but it was much harder and a lot less convenient to find what you wanted.
Before IRC you actually had to KNOW someone you could get a copy of the floppy from.
Hell man we used to use a tape deck to copy programs from cassette to cassette for our Vic 20s in jr high.
 
So..... researchers are basically saying, manipulation of data will further agendas of people who wish to manipulate data.
 
SGA76 said:
No, they didn't START piracy, they started MASS piracy by making it easy for anyone who could click install start downloading music, movies and software.
Before that IRC was used quite a bit, but it was much harder and a lot less convenient to find what you wanted.
Before IRC you actually had to KNOW someone you could get a copy of the floppy from.
Hell man we used to use a tape deck to copy programs from cassette to cassette for our Vic 20s in jr high.
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The internet is and always has been a communications utility. It is and always has been used as such. We now live in a delusional, greed-driven country where an MP3 is legally made the same thing as actual CDA content. Etc. A billion and a half Chinese people are laughing hysterically at this mutually agreed upon horseshit.

There is no other reality under current federal law, including the DMCA, other than total disregard, and no other eventuality except collapse under the weight of its own untenability and greed. The only question is how long it will take the American people to wake the fuck up and demand utility protections for internet traffic. Until then we live in a literal corporate fascist state, with everyone from Google to our own government trampling wholesale on our constitutional rights. THESE RIGHTS DO NOT SIMPLY DISAPPEAR WHEN WE GO ONLINE.
 
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