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First published @ searchlores.org in November 2002 (This version 1.61 was updated in April 2009) Catching the rabbit's ears & pulling files out of the hat Advanced Web searching tricks by VVAA (Various Authors) Introduction 
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Since I respect even the most stupid laws, this would really annoy me.
Let's have a look at the basic EU-directive on "copyrights" (read patents, please always remember that "intellectual property" and "copyrights" are only cheap and rather sarcastic euphemisms for patents): Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society (pdf format, to fetch it in html-format just change the EN in this URL http://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ:L:2001:167:SOM:en:HTML to any other of the EU languages in order to read it -clicking at page 10- translated in your own language, here the relevant codes: en, fr, de, it, nl, es, el, pt, sv, da and fi; and, for EU-legislation drafted after their respective accession, you might use also cs, et, lv, lt, hu, mt, pl, sk, sl, ro and bg)(*).
This appallingly restrictive EU Directive is clearly a law designed only in order to protect the interests of large media organisations (and probably to please our american masters), still the "legislators" couldn't exagerate so much as to give away their true aims: when "consumers' rights" "threaten the industry future" you cannot simply state that you want to screw those very consumers' rights in order to protect your paymasters.
Let's see: in the introductory explanations (22) we can read: "The objective of proper support for the dissemination of culture must not be achieved by sacrificing strict protection of rights or by tolerating illegal forms of distribution of counterfeited or pirated works". This is interesting, albeit -of course- very wickedly expressed. So we note that the real objective to achieve is NOT "strict protection of rights" or "tolerating illegal forms of distribution of counterfeited or pirated works", the real objective to achieve, as stated in this text, is "proper support for the dissemination of culture", albeit in achieving it we shold -admittedly- not make excessive sacrifices. I can live with this.
For the rest, reading the text of the law, we see (art.3) that one should not "make available to the public... [patented] ...works in such a way that members of the public may access them from a place and at a time individually chosen by them" and this we do not. We do not make files available, they are already available. We just point out that they are available everywhere, and, incidentally, this may even help those very bastards patent-holders and their political lackeys to track many repositories of patented files... those clowns may infact learn as well a couple of things about searching. It won't matter a zilch of course: as soon as they stop a loophole, we'll find another one: the very STRUCTURE of the web was made for sharing, not for selling and not for hoarding, "cum bona pace" of the patent-obsessed paranoids.
Also we note - with proud and sense of accomplishment - that the objective of "proper support for the dissemination of culture" can be achieved -inter alia- also through many of the "webbits" you'll find below.
Uff! I can breath again.
Such is the advantage of knowledge: Fac sapias, et liber eris.
(*)In 2006 a new directive was drafted: Directive 2006/116/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on the term of protection of copyright and certain related rights (codified version) (here too, just change that uppercase EN inside the address bar to any other language to obtain it in a different linguistic version) "for harmonisation purposes". Here, in order to protect "the interests of cultural industries", the hard-lobbied EU-legislators have criminally extended the patent coverage from 50 to 70 years (article 1)... Come to think of it: best thing all readers can do is to scan, publish and upload on their own sites every month at least one nice book published exactly 71 years ago!
We should probably launch a web-snowball: "Proud to publish another patent-liberated text!", with badge, logo and everything :-)
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People that are new to our webbits wont believe the techniques described here until they try them... so just try them :-)
Those that already know how powerful and mighty Seekers can be, will not wonder at all.
Both kind of readers will find these tricks more useful than my words can possibly underline.
Hey! This section is mostly for advanced seekers, there's shouldn't be any need to explain too much... either you do understand everything, and then some, just looking at the examples listed below, or you better come back here later... or never again.
Yet I'll still begin with a short explanation: homines, dum docent, discunt :-)