Google, Furious With MPAA, Ends Anti-Piracy Cooperation

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According to this report, a less than flattering press release from the MPAA seriously pissed off Google. You know, we were wondering how long Google would put up with those guys. I guess now we know. :eek:

After delivering a major blow to torrent sites during October, Google must've thought the MPAA would be pleased. Instead, however, the MPAA issued a 'snarky' press release. According to a leaked email, the press release so infuriated Google's top brass that the company ended cooperation with the MPAA.
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LOL...MPAA didn't want to say anything to positive becasue they were waiting for a state AG to sue Goggle...WTF! :p

Only in MPAA land does that make sense. :rolleyes:
 
Best news I've read in a while. :cool:
Google has balls, and the MPAA can gargle balls.
 
“Everyone shares a responsibility to help curb unlawful conduct online, and we are glad to see Google acknowledging its role in facilitating access to stolen content via search,”
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-MPAA, The ++++++ of the Internet.​
 
The MPAA is a bunch of self important, power hungry pricks. It's good Google isn't going to continue to try to please them.
 
dgingeri said:
The MPAA is a bunch of self important, power hungry pricks. It's good Google isn't going to continue to try to please them.
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It is good, because they will never be pleased, regardless of the results.
No one demands more respect than a whore *COUGH* I mean a board member of the MPAA. :D
 
Red Falcon said:
Best news I've read in a while. :cool:
Google has balls, and the MPAA can gargle balls.
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Google has balls, and money and lawyers up the ass to put up one hell of a resistance if they want to run the full legal course with the MPAA. :D

This could be the start of a good show.... <grabs popcorn>
 
I guess it's cheaper for MPAA to sue google than pay what they're asking for proper filtering. we know it's for sale anyway
 
Does google even have a choice though? The MPAA and other copyright extremists can just sue them now. Either way this is great to hear. Say no to censorship.
 
The MPAA can kiss my ass. I hope Google gives them a steely dan right up the ass.
 
Personally, I hope Google will bypass the MPAA all-together and work directly with all the studios going forward.

Regarding the link that ROTO posted, that is a shit storm waiting to happen. Bribing (and that is exactly what it is to me) officials - directly or indirectly - smacks of serious illegality. MPAA is heading up the wrong path, if you ask me.
 
AceGoober said:
. Bribing (and that is exactly what it is to me) officials - directly or indirectly - smacks of serious illegality. MPAA is heading up the wrong path, if you ask me.
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Look at their head and realize that he is a corrupt ex-Senator who should be in jail instead of in charge of the MPAA, are you really surprised?
 
AceGoober said:
Regarding the link that ROTO posted, that is a shit storm waiting to happen. Bribing (and that is exactly what it is to me) officials - directly or indirectly - smacks of serious illegality. MPAA is heading up the wrong path, if you ask me.
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You really think so? I mean this is how our whole damn government operates now. If you're not paying a lobbyist, you're invisible in government. Multiply the MPAA's actions times 10,000 or so and you have modern government.
 
It's not Google's job to help fight piracy. Their job is to index the web and give their users the results they are looking for. Don't push what people are searching for lower in the search results. Move it to the top because you know that's what they are looking for. Google is not the police of the internet. &#8220;Everyone shares a responsibility to help curb unlawful conduct online" is a completely false statement and printing it doesn't make it true. It's the sole responsibility of the MPAA and the RIAA to protect their customers property. Not Google.
 
I still believe that one day - the MPAA is going to go so far and somewhere, someone is going to give them exactly what they deserve. Not with lawyers, not with legal action, but with swift and painful physical justice.

Do you think the MPAA would be so eager to act like dicks if they knew there was a very real chance of the higher ups getting kneecapped by rogue individuals? (or worse)

Violence never solves anything -- except in cases like this.
 
collegeboy69us said:
I still believe that one day - the MPAA is going to go so far and somewhere, someone is going to give them exactly what they deserve. Not with lawyers, not with legal action, but with swift and painful physical justice.

Do you think the MPAA would be so eager to act like dicks if they knew there was a very real chance of the higher ups getting kneecapped by rogue individuals? (or worse)

Violence never solves anything -- except in cases like this.
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We need a motorcycle club called Sons of Piracy, and they would keep these guys in line. :D
 
tetris42 said:
You really think so? I mean this is how our whole damn government operates now. If you're not paying a lobbyist, you're invisible in government. Multiply the MPAA's actions times 10,000 or so and you have modern government.
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I give a shout out to the living dead
Who stood and watched as the feds cold centralized
So serene on the screen
You were mesmerised
Cellular phones soundin' a death tone
Corporations cold
Turn ya to stone before ya realise
They load the clip in omnicolour
Said they pack the 9, they fire it at prime time
Sleeping gas, every home was like Alcatraz
And mutha fuckas lost their minds
 
AceGoober said:
Personally, I hope Google will bypass the MPAA all-together and work directly with all the studios going forward.
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Psst.

MPAA = Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures; Paramount Pictures Corporation; Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.; Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation; Universal City Studios LLC; and Warner Bros Entertainment Inc.

Working with the MPAA *is* working directly with all the studios.
 
Parja said:
If that's a bike rack, it's the worst one ever designed.
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It's designed to keep the bike parallel to the sidewalk, not perpendicular. I see them all the time.

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Like so.

Prevents issues like bikes having their front wheels bent at the track because some asshole decided to kick them.

Also more secure to the ground as the rack is secured with a wider base instead of a narrow one.
 
techrat said:
Psst.

MPAA = Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures; Paramount Pictures Corporation; Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.; Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation; Universal City Studios LLC; and Warner Bros Entertainment Inc.

Working with the MPAA *is* working directly with all the studios.
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More accurately, with their legal departments. But imo we should keep the blame where it belongs: in our country the DMCA is responsible for virtually all of this online copyright nannyism. The law faces certain and quick overturn or repeal once the classification for internet traffic is corrected.
 
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