Google Refuses to Remove Links To “Fappening” Photos

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This is one decision we can all stand behind. Thank you Google, you have our full support. :D

In an attempt to remove Kate Upton's leaked nudes from Google's search results, her boyfriend Jason Verlander instructed his lawyers to send a DMCA takedown request. Interestingly, Google has rejected nearly half of the links in the Detroit Tigers pitcher's copyright complaint.
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This is the same Google who summarily censors all binary posts in all usenet groups. Excuse me while I get my pom-poms.
 
I'm trying to figure out why anyone would bother trying to get nude pics of Kate Upton removed. When I did a Bing image search (since, at risk of revealing how aged I am, I didn't know who she was), virtually all the pictures of her were bikini shots (nice), many of which couldn't have covered more than 12 square inches of her body (nice).

We really need to get over our nipple/genitalia issues.
 
Why is she even a big deal. Is she the only girl with big boobs.
 
Sorry, but I welcome nude pics of me with Kate Upton. I wouldn't be sending take down notices, I'd be hiring a good SEO company instead.
 
Wait a minute: Why is the DMCA relevant to this incident? I'm having a little bit of trouble thinking that Members of Congress and their money masters had private naked photos in mind when they enacted the DMCA.
 
Megalith said:
Why is she even a big deal. Is she the only girl with big boobs.
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I don't even know who she is. All I know is that she's famous and people think she's hot. :confused:

Censorship. Google says no to this, but yes to others. Couldn't this be taken down with that other feature they had where they can remove links for certain people (can't recall the name on that one). $100 says that when Mama June's (Honey Boo Boo's mom) tits get posted, Google takes those down with no problem.

I like tits as much as the next guy, but I don't see why it's so taboo to see them. The US seems to be one of the worst (not counting the middle east) with censorship of boobs.
 
Ur_Mom said:
I like tits as much as the next guy, but I don't see why it's so taboo to see them. The US seems to be one of the worst (not counting the middle east) with censorship of boobs.
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Well.... wasnt this country effectively "founded" by people who were uptight as hell?

http://youtu.be/4o-5RyYAl50

Clip from the late Robin Williams sort of explains it I guess ;)
 
Someone should break it to these people that their photos are on millions of hard drives all over the world. The genie isn't going back in the bottle.
 
He doesn't care about her pics being posted.
He's really trying to get his own small dick pics taken down. I just found out he's 6'5"
 
Ur_Mom said:
I like tits as much as the next guy, but I don't see why it's so taboo to see them. The US seems to be one of the worst (not counting the middle east) with censorship of boobs.
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her pussy is all over the internet. and a cumshot all over her back.
 
B2BigAl said:
Someone should break it to these people that their photos are on millions of hard drives all over the world. The genie isn't going back in the bottle.
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I REALLY want them to tell people to take them down. Remember the Beyonce fiasco? It'd be spread a lot faster then the fappening. :)
 
Babbster said:
We really need to get over our nipple/genitalia issues.
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Yep. The more you cover it up, the more people become fascinated with it. Kids, these things are organs that expel and accept bodily fluids used for reproduction and the feeding of infants, there's nothing more sexy about them than the rest of the human body.

We should get our kids to spend time at nudist/naturist colonies, get the obsession of titties and ass out of them :p
 
the_servicer said:
Wait a minute: Why is the DMCA relevant to this incident? I'm having a little bit of trouble thinking that Members of Congress and their money masters had private naked photos in mind when they enacted the DMCA.
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Pictures are copyrighted the same as music and movies.
 
I thought the USPTO already settled this in that animals taking photos can not be copyrighted.

Anyone who's seen the photos knows Verlander is probably closer to ape than he is to human.
 
B2BigAl said:
Someone should break it to these people that their photos are on millions of hard drives all over the world. The genie isn't going back in the bottle.
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These are people who are used to having their way without question in their little personal bubbles of celebrity. They probably have a hard time mentally registering that something could be utterly beyond their ability to control.
 
BladeVenom said:
Pictures are copyrighted the same as music and movies.
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The issue isn't the kind of media or how to categorize the works. It's whether or how a (perhaps misguided) piece of legislation applies to an incident which is merely tangential to the law's original purpose. I don't have any answers, but there is something that doesn't seem quite right about crying DMCA after failing to keep private data private.
 
the_servicer said:
Wait a minute: Why is the DMCA relevant to this incident? I'm having a little bit of trouble thinking that Members of Congress and their money masters had private naked photos in mind when they enacted the DMCA.
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Probably because the pictures are owned by the creator and distribution without consent is what is happening. You don't have the right to steal or pirate from anyone, just because that person is not a multimillion dollar record company doesn't mean they have no rights to the works they created.
 
the_servicer said:
Wait a minute: Why is the DMCA relevant to this incident? I'm having a little bit of trouble thinking that Members of Congress and their money masters had private naked photos in mind when they enacted the DMCA.
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Because the wealthy puppet masters that run Hollywood were planning to sell this T&A on screen, knowing millions for example watched a stupid Halle Berry movie to see her tits on camera for the first time.

Distributing nudes for celebrities isn't like "normal people", in that its more akin to piracy of a Hollywood product. That is why so much action was taken on this. Its all about the almighty dollar.
 
the_servicer said:
Wait a minute: Why is the DMCA relevant to this incident? I'm having a little bit of trouble thinking that Members of Congress and their money masters had private naked photos in mind when they enacted the DMCA.
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The DMCA has been abused like this since its enactment (I still retain the mental snapshot of Steve Jobs popping the cork on a celebratory bottle of champagne when it passed.) The article is a bit sensationalist, of course, since it states that all links to nude photos have been removed, and the links left up a) have no nudes in them b) weren't taken by the person who filed the DMCA take downs--so he has no DMCA claims on them. So, even though it asks the question, the article explains "why they all weren't taken down."

Google is right to tread lightly when it comes to censorship, and people are funny about that. They'll bitch like crazy if they think the government is watching stuff to keep crazies from another 9/11, but practically demand censorship over some nude photos that never should have been stored digitally on a remote server in the first place. It's pretty simple: you don't take any nude pictures of yourself and upload them to the Internet & it will be impossible for such pictures to ever show up one day on the public clothesline (unless they are fakes, of course, which are easy to invalidate.)
 
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