For example, many innocent people just had their already-stolen credit cards published to a public Rapidshare.com download.

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Similarly, when users search for terms such as BitTorrent, RapidShare or utorrent, they now have to type in the entire word and hit "search" for relevant results to pop up.

BBC: Google removes The Pirate Bay from auto-complete search

Yesterday, the folks at BGPMon, who monitor such things, discovered that IDC-China Telecom had leaked spurious route announcements for such popular sites as dell.com, cnn.com, www.amazon.de, www.rapidshare.com causing them to be unreachable for some users.

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