A site has launched as a form of dissent to the Pirate Bay case. Pirate Google provides torrent file search using a simple Google custom search.

You can do this with any regular Google search by appending your query with filetype:torrent. This technique can be used for any type of file supported by Google.

The intention of this site is to demonstrate the double standard that was exemplified in the recent Pirate Bay Trial. Sites such as Google offer much the same functionality as The Pirate Bay and other Bit Torrent sites but are not targeted by media conglomerates such as the IFPI as they have the political and legal clout to defend themselves unlike these small independent sites.

The logic is obviously and perhaps intentionally thin, such as the fact that Google usually just points a search back to a Pirate Bay URL. Nonetheless, it poses a good question. If you aid in a search for data, are you complicit when unauthorized access to that data is successful? Maybe complicit is not the right word because it includes a notion of awareness. Aiding and abetting could be a better phrase, since it separates awareness. Philosophy courses must be a barrel of fun today compared to the Hume, Locke, Buber, etc. textbook examples I used to have to process.

Colorful logo. How long before this starts turning up on t-shirts, let alone boats in the Aden Straits?