A new agreement will see piracy websites kicked off the front page of Bing and Google search results in the UK.
Both Google and Microsoft have entered into an agreement this Monday with the British government that would see their respective search engines make piracy websites harder to find for UK users.
The new voluntary code, negotiated by rights holders and search engines, demotes websites like the Pirate Bay that have been repeatedly flagged for copyright infringement. These sites will drop off the first page of common searches and won’t appear in suggested auto-completes, reported the Telegraph.
The move was made in an effort to prevent piracy and promote the discovery of legitimate forms of access to content.
