Who Should Be Blamed for Facilitating Online Piracy?

New website tries to shift blame to content distributors

Are search engines really to blame for facilitating pirated movies and other media?

The debate began anew this morning with data generated by piracydata.org, a new website from the Mercatus Center, which points a finger at content distributors for not giving fans legal online options.

Launched to counter claims made by the Motion Picture Association of America and other media that search engines facilitate piracy, the website ranks the 10 most pirated movies on BitTorrent as compiled by Torrent Freak and then details if those films are available for legal online viewing.

Data gathered over the past three weeks found that 53 percent of the most pirated movies were available legally in some digital form.

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