Google working to shut down piracy

Google recently began working with Visa and Microsoft to attempt to find a stop to online piracy. Piracy is an issue that is difficult to deal with by law, due to lawmakers not wanting to censor online freedom or infringe on anybody’s rights to share their work via online media.  Google’s plan is different from recent laws against piracy as it is not attempting to shut down piracy immediately. It plans to instead track and remove the sources of funding to piracy sites, making it difficult and cost-inefficient to provide links to pirated material. How effective this action will be is unclear. Similar actions have been attempted in 2010 by Visa and MasterCard to shut down WikiLeaks. However, the actions were ultimately ineffective. Piracy has survived a lot over the years, including the shutdown of popular sites Megaupload and Limewire and 2009’s unsuccessful Stop Online Piracy Act. No specific action has yet been taken by Google.