MPAA threatens to disconnect Google from the Internet

Please, check your grammar before you post an article.

at google: "guys you have to see this... we just got another letter from <company x> they are going to shut down our internet"

first time : lots of laughter "put that up on the wall of stupid"

20th time :"eh throw it in the stack... and figure out if anyone is actually downloading stuff from the office"

50th time "trashcan it"

Next weeks news... Google buys MPAA!

Looks like somebody at the MPAA is starting to overestimate who they are ("they" being themselves or the MPAA in itself). Somebody's starting to lose it...

Now, we only need to see if somebody will eventually shake them back to their senses... (c'mon Google, you know you want to )

Google should just remove the MPAA and associated entities from their search engine. It would be like an internet death sentence.

Competing for stupidity today, MPAA, Sony... and don't forget Nintendo, whose president has declared $2 games a danger to the industry. It's "Let's change the laws to support our business model!" Day.

The number of Brand Enforcement companies working these the MPAA/RIAA is growing every day. I wrote up a blog on this some time ago... http://www.infostruction.com/2010/12/02/the-p2p-war-someone-is-monitoring-your-activities/

Source me, doctor!

Time to get mideval on MPAA

I thought these tools were meant to be used to shut down child porn websites, has anyone reported any shut down yet? I'm thinking that the MPAA used this topic to leverage the bill into law and then no one has ever bothered to look into what it was intended to stop.

"who share certain their content"? Really? I know you were excited to post on the internet, but maybe reign in your hateboner for the MPAA long enough to proof your work?

That is the most laughable headline I've seen in days. Are they the Motion Picture Association of America or Motion Picture Association of the World? Which Google are they going to disconnect? There's more than 30 of them in the US alone, and they have a long list of overseas entities. And they have data centers spread around the globe. http://www.searchenginejournal.com/googles-30-us-subsidiaries-googles-international-companies/4481/

best comment of the day!

LOL yea. Maybe Google should just pull any MPAA affiliated entity from their results. YOU don't disconnect Google. Google disconnects YOU.


"The views expressed here are mine and do not reflect the official opinion of my employer or the organization through which the Internet was accessed."

If I have to choose between Google and RIAA/MPAA, I choose Google hands down.
Now how do we go about disconnecting RIAA/MPAA from the Internet?

doesnt google break even on its internet usage.. (if not make money on it) because it owns most of the dark fibre.

what does the MPAA think... that google is going to shut google down? seeing as they are their own ISP

*rofl* - what 're they up to? Pressing that big-red Mubarak switch and make google loose all its BGP-peerings world-wide? OMG. Stupid *****s! Can't stop laughing...

Google IS an ISP. Googles PROFIT is nearly the size of all of Hollywoods combined REVENUE. the MPAA is saber rattling the wrong people.

You mean sharing their expression. Content cannot be copyrighted; only expression can. If you're confused, ask any IP lawyer.

Not sure how making yourself out to look completely fricking stupid with delusions of grandeur is a win. I guess it does give the impression that MPAA has the balls to go up against google but on the downside shows it lacks intelligence and common sense to think they can pull it off.