BPI welcomes Google piracy move

The BPI and RIAA have applauded Google's decision to push illegal copyright infringing sites down in its search results, and called on owners of other leading search engines to follow suit.

The search giant announced on Friday that it will be penalising sites which rack up verified copyright takedown notices (DMCAs). The BPI sent out 160,000 of them to Google in May alone.

BPI Chief Executive Geoff Taylor (pictured) said: "We have argued for some time that the fact ...

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