Piracy has always been a big thing with copyright holders, that will never change. People that pirate content though, will continue to find new ways to get a hold of the pirated content they want. Google however, will seemingly have nothing to do with it, as they have just recently removed a handful of piracy related applications from the Play Store while citing a violation of the copyrighted portion of the Play Store policy as the reason for the apps removal. Did anyone not see this coming? And furthermore, this was always likely going to end up being the case as Google has been cracking down on copyrighted content for the last year or so.
Google has also been facing harsher scrutiny and criticism, with increased pressure from copyright holders over pirated content that users have been able to access through the download, installation and use of several different apps that were, prior to today, capable of being downloaded from the Play Store. All of these apps as reported by Torrent Freak are related to The Pirate Bay, a popular website for torrent sharing and often in the limelight for being linked to pirated content distribution from user to user. This is all a part of Google’s initiative which works against piracy, but it isn’t the first step they have taken as they recently put measures in place through a reconfiguration of their search algorithm which is supposed to give sites that are often linked to pirated content a lower ranking in the search results.
As part of the recent removal of apps, the following: the Pirate Bay Proxy, The Pirate Bay Premium, The Pirate Bay Mirror, and PirateApp have all been taken off the Play Store and the developers have been contacted regarding the removal. The developers of these apps apparently also get one policy strike, which can lead to a discontinuation of the developer account if too many of these are received. If you were looking for an app like those mentioned above sadly, you won’t be getting access to them through the Play Store any more. That however doesn’t stop users from accessing these sorts of sites through the browser directly. If you have commonly used apps like these to grab your content through alternative means, we won’t judge.
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