After finally succumbing to pressures from the RIAA, Google will now be censoring certain search terms related to music piracy.  More specifically, the king of all search engines will be removing terms such as “torrent” and “Rapidshare” from its instant and autocomplete services.  As several of the affected services were quick to point out, this unfortunately ignores the significant amount of legitimate uses of such platforms, including independent artists who choose to distribute their music to their fans for free via torrents.  Read all about it here.  As a bonus, check out these 7 terrible things (much worse than music piracy) that Google isn’t censoring.

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