Is Google Censoring the Search Function?

Google has apparently succumbed to pressure from the entertainment industry and blocked many piracy-related terms from the "autocomplete" and "instant" function on its search bar. Here's some of the debate around this pseudo-censorship:

• Commercial Censorship "It's taken a while, but Google has finally caved in to pressure from the entertainment industries ... The entertainment industries' quest to root out piracy on the Internet has yet again resulted in commercial censorship," says TorrentFreak.
• Why Us and Not Them? "There's no reason for Google to throttle search results for our trademarks ... Indeed, they do still enable autocomplete for many third-party clients that use the BitTorrent protocol, including BitComet, BitLord, and even sites like The Pirate Bay and Isohunt," BitTorrent's Simon Morris told TorrentFreak, as reported on Tech Eye.
• In Bed With Business? "This is a subtle form of censorship, and at first glance it seems trivial," says Charlie White at Mashable. "However, even though the censorship is slight, it still indicates Google’s willingness to change its search protocols to satisfy the needs of a certain business group, in this case members of the entertainment industry."
• Not All Torrents Are Illegal, notes Mark Brown at UK's Wired. "Not every file hosted on Megaupload [one of the blocked sites] is a ripped DVD and not every torrent is a pirated album."
• Putting Out a 'Forest Fire With A Wet Noodle' That's what stopping online piracy is like, says Devin Coldewey at TechCrunch, so best of luck. "It's a new high for antipiracy theater, because you can of course still search for the terms by hitting enter, and get the same results as before."
• This Will Become a Larger Issue "The ultimate question at hand is what happens when pressure is put onto Google by other industries? Chances are, this is far from the last of the terms and far from the last of the industries that will want a piece of your search preferences," writes Brad McCarty at The Next Web.