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Google: We're Not Like Pirate Bay

 
In the wake of a Swedish court's decision to imprison the operators of The Pirate Bay , a Web site that helps users search for BitTorrent files in the same way that Google handles general Internet file searches, Google wants to make sure everyone understands that it's no Pirate Bay. (link)

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