Google in League with Record Industry?

Is google banning sites which encourage mp3 and Cdrs?

[The Subtle Knife]

It makes sense to me, I get the impression from reading
threads that google may be banning sites that encourage copyright theft activities.

Does anyone have a list of "areas" or "keywords" that may cause a ban?

"mp3" "cdr"?

So perhaps since sex sites are treated differently, perhaps anti-copyright sites now fall into that category - it seems
to be the only explanation.

[Laurel]

I have an artist approved trading tree site, that I didn't even submit to google (or anywhere for that matter) and it got listed in the last update.

in the meta tags I have the words, CDR & bootleg.... and they didn't have any problems.

This site also has a better PR than the fan site I run for the same guy.

I have 3 backlinks to the fan site and 1 backlink to the trading tree site.

So, in my opinion no.

[ciml]

Music sites often have more reason to heavily cross-link than others.

I doubt that Google do anything specifically to treat music sites differently, but I suppose that it could be argued that a cross linking penalty will hit a greater proportion of music sites than those in most industries.

[Krapulator]

Apparently there were suggestions earlier this week that certain music related search terms may have suffered a little spring-cleaning by Google recently.

[jomaxx]

Searching for "mp3" brings up THIRTY MILLION results. They don't seem to be banning sites for using that.

[bcolflesh]

I see a lot of the spam sites redirecting to Amazon Music are gone - hooray!

Regards,
Brent