Settlements
On November 23, 2005, the Motion Picture Association of America and BitTorrent Inc. CEO Bram Cohen, signed a deal they films made by seven of Hollywood's major movie studios. As it covered only the BitTorent| title=Deal signed on downloading piracy| accessdate=2006-11-04}}
A number of other notable search engines have also voluntarily self-censored restrictively licensed content from their results, or have become "content distribution"-only search engines. In the case of Mininova, it announced that it would only allow for freely licensed content (especially free content distributed by its author under a Creative Commons license) to be indexed after November 2009, resulting in the immediate removal of a majority portion of Mininova's search returns from view or use.
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