Google and Its Free Music Download Service
29 June 2007
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Some time ago, I wrote an article about a simple way to download music files straight from Google by typing a single command in the search box. Other folks on the Internet also found out about the trick and created articles, detailed videos as well as tutorials to let the users know
about it. However, CNET points to a website that is even more interesting, allowing the users to download music from Google’s search engine using a mashup of the main search technology.
The special webpage was created by Jimmy Ruska and enables the visitors to search for MP3 Music, albums, torrents, PDF documents, ringtones and other file formats. It’s obvious that the users are interested in downloading free MP3 files as well as movies and other type of content but this is surely a problem especially for the copyright holders of the files.
But who’s fault it is? Google cannot be blamed for the music files included in the search results because it indexes a huge amount of information including all kinds of files. It’s extremely difficult to filter all the content crawled by Google because most of the music files, videos and torrents that should not be included in the search results are stored on directories, often belonging to private users.
It’s difficult to get Google to the court because it indexes your music files or the videos owned by you. It’s easier to inform it about the illegal existence of your content in their search results and request the removal. Take the example of YouTube. The online video sharing service was an important problem for the parent company Google because numerous firms filed copyright complaints against it after several clips were uploaded on the official page. The latest suit was filled by Viacom, the owner of MTV that also demanded no less than $1 billion in damages.
