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The French Supreme Court has ruled that Google may have to censor the words "torrent," "RapidShare," and "Megaupload" from its instant and autocomplete searches, according to TorrentFreak.
In its ongoing court case with French music industry group SNEP, Google has been accused of implicitly allowing copyright violations for not filtering out these words. The SNEP alleges that when users type in names of well-known musicians in Google search, file-sharing sites get added on with the autocomplete feature.
Despite the shock value of having to censor words, the case is actually moot at this point. According to TorrentFreak, Google already started filtering "piracy-related" terms last year from its autocomplete feature. While users worldwide will see "torrent" and "megaupload" in search results, they won't see them in autocomplete or instant services.
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