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Google made a substantial revision to its search algorithm today, the company says. And while no one in particular is being called out, it's clear that the big losers are content farms and related spammy-content producers who have been having an absolute field day on Google over the last couple of years. 11.8% of search queries have been

BREAKING: AOL Europe has lead an acquision of video distribution network Goviral today, to the tune of $96.7 million.

Goviral distributes branded video content for mainstream brands, as well as content producers and advertising agencies.

Originally out of Copenhagen, the company now has offices across Europe. The initial purchase is for $74.1 million and $22.6 million in a two year earn out.

It joins others AOL acquisitions in the last year including, StudioNow, 5min Media, Thing Labs, Pictela, about.me and, er, TechCrunch.

When BitTorrent trackers get emails from content producers it's usually an indication that relationships are about to break down in a big way.

But when lifestyle and clothing company Voleurz saw their videos being made available on the ExtremeBits BitTorrent tracker they didn't send the usual cease and desist.

At a time where content producers are increasingly using peer-to-peer technology to distribute data, there are still Internet providers that wont allow such traffic on their networks.

This type of discrimination is not limited to mobile or cellular networks either. In Ireland, Vodafone users are not permitted to use peer-to-peer services on their broadband connection.

For years the term peer-to-peer has been a synonym for piracy to most of the mainstream public.

Michael Scott points us to an interesting blog post by law professor Tim Armstrong wondering if the DMCA is still controversial, noting that while many of the biggest fears associated with the DMCA when it was first passed did, in fact, come true, many of them were cut back by court decisions that limited the interpretations of the DMCA away from the most dangerous ones.

Most content producers only see the dark side of piracy but every now and then we encounter a rare exception.

Jeff Vogel, president and head programmer for Spiderweb Software, admits that piracy is not an absolute evil.

Sometimes it's actually OK to pirate his games, and he explains why.

Most of the anti-piracy efforts we report on come from groups that are connected to the movie and music business, but piracy is also rampant in the gaming industry.

With millions of daily users BitTorrent is a great platform for filmmakers and musicians to promote their work.

One of the main challenges that independent content producers face today is not piracy, but finding ways to to get their work noticed.

This is where the BitTorrent-powered distribution platform VODO comes in.

Tech-No-Media: "Content creation used to be the stronghold of Apple and it's OSX operating system, but recently there have been signs that content producers are more and more attracted to Linux."

Local broadcast news video has typically been relegated to the sites of the media companies that broadcast it, plus sometimes YouTube.

But now, Google News is adding local news video to its aggregation of stories, letting users watch related YouTube clips alongside the links to news content.