Google Refuses MPAA Request To Blacklist ‘Pirate Site’ Homepages

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Google is pissing off the MPAA again. It's actually quite entertaining watching these two go at it all the time. :D

The MPAA recently asked Google to remove the homepages of dozens of sites that offer links to pirated content. Google, however, refused to take down most of the URLs, likely because the takedown notices are seen as too broad.
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Facebook.com ? pirate site....lol, poor MPAA.

I like to know how broad, someone whistling the tune Dixie or just listing the title?

Someone stall Sgt. Hartman because I can't get that grin off my face.
 
So if MPAA got their way

Good by

Youtube
facebook
myspace
twitter

all those sites as people are always posting things they do not own and linking to other sites...
 
Google just needs to man up and block all the sites of MPAA member studios. Won't take long for this BS to stop.
 
Koolthulu said:
Google just needs to man up and block all the sites of MPAA member studios. Won't take long for this BS to stop.
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I remember a while back one of the MPAA takedown lists actually included some sites that were legitimate studio and movie related sites... was pretty funny actually
 
MrGuvernment said:
So if MPAA got their way

Good by

Youtube
facebook
myspace
twitter

all those sites as people are always posting things they do not own and linking to other sites...
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That article listed the domains of the homepage urls that they asked to have blocked, they didn't request the entire domain to be taken down :rolleyes:
 
Search engine for the internet. Just not everything on the internet.

Why does Google need to take that out? Why not go after the site itself? Like the war on drugs - go for the easy targets. Leave the big guys alone. It's more profitable that way.

I would say let a search engine catalog all these sites. Let the MPAA go after the sites themselves.
 
Well, Google set the precedent when they went around taking down 'The fappening' links due to copyright infringement...
 
Torrent traffic makes up something like 1/3 of all global internet traffic at peak hours... It ain't going anywhere anytime soon.
 
because the takedown notices are seen as too broad.
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Translation: "We got rich hosting copyright protected content on YouTube, don't threaten the core of our business model".
 
How relevant will a search engine be when it starts not providing relevant results? Google gained popularity as an alternative to other search engines, I don't know why these big companies think they can't fail when they definitely can. It's just history repeating itself and google would be wise to tell the MPAA to fuckoff.

The fact that google entertains the MPAA at all is annoying. I don't even watch that many movies or really listen to music much anymore but I have watched the MPAA whine and cry for the last 20 years for the benefit of who? Not me or society in general.
 
The world has been converted into eight billion content producers of equal publishing power. Who do you think will be the only people against this concept?

This issue completely transcends political party, and the sooner the DMCA is repealed as the futile and untenable nonsense that it is, the sooner the other 7.9999999999 billion of us can get on with the new century.
 
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