Is Google genuinely 'anti-piracy'?

POLL: Yesterday's Newsnight on BBC Two shone its light on online piracy - and Google's role in enabling the illegal downloading of copyright music.

During the programme, Google UK policy manager Theo Bertram claimed that the firm is now actively choking illegal filesharing sites at their commercial source.

"Our research shows however much you do on filtering or blocking, what is much more effective is to go after the money – to remove the financial underpinnings, the advertising, the payment ...

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