It seems that Google has dropped torrent site BTJunkie from its search results after having received a request from Fox which specifically mentioned a torrent of box office record breaking movie Avatar.

It's hard to see Google adding BTJunkie again until Avatar drops from the main page...

The removal of BTJunkie from Google’s search results isn’t the first time Google has made the move to entirely disappear a torrent site from its search pages, as TorrentFreak is quick to point out. Last year, Google did very much the same thing to file sharing giant The Pirate Bay, though it later admitted that removing the entirety of The Pirate Bay from its search results was an error… it’ll be interesting to see if the same is true of this latest removal.

Searching for BTJunkie on Google now returns a page of results related to the site, but not the main page itself. Instead, Google shows a quote at the bottom of the page, which simply reads,

“In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint that caused the removal(s) at ChillingEffects.org.”

It’s certainly an interesting case, made more interesting by the fact that the folks from BTJunkie have already shot a letter Google’s way in an attempt to have its homepage added to Google’s search listings again. While it seems unlikely that the side of filesharing will win the day in this case, it is curious to see the fact that BTJunkie isn’t taking things lying down.

Still, it’s hard to see how well the case put forward by BTJunkie can possibly stand up, given the fact that the biggest part of the service it provides is illegal…