Google Not in the Mood After Piracy Accusations

It's well known the fact that everyone is able to download MP3s and movies for free using a simple trick on Google's search engine. But it's obvious the Mountain View company is not feeling too comfortable talking about this tip because numerous files offered for download are actually pirated songs, clips or videos. Financial Times informs that Jimmy Ruska, a 21-year-old American, posted a clip on YouTube in April to inform users about this interesting trick to download free files. The video recorded an impressive audience, over 430.000 the publication mentions, while numerous viewers saved it as favorite.

"A lot of students use the web-space given to them by their university to share music with their friends," said Jimmy Ruska according to the same source. The interesting fact is that the trick was revealed a long time ago but every time somebody talks about pirated content distribution, Google is cornered and criticized by all its enemies.

Matt Cutts, Google engineer, said the trick is not something special because it allows you to find ordinary files, not necessarily pirated content. "The formula shown on YouTube is an attempt to find web pages containing a list of files including the word MP3," he said for the Financial Times. "Nothing guarantees that such a search will find music files, for many web pages can contain the word MP3 without giving access to [music] content."

Google is not too often involved in pirated content matters because all its solutions are web-based and can be accessed straight from the Internet. However, the Mountain View company has another problem, the copyright infringement one that is bothering the folks from the Googleplex since they acquired the famous video sharing service YouTube. As you know, a lot of companies accused Google of infringing their copyrights because numerous videos were published on YouTube without authorization.