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"Copyright infringement also violates your ISP's terms of service and could lead to limitation or suspension of your Internet service. You should take immediate action to prevent your Internet account from being used for illegal activities," the movie companies write in various letters, according to TorrentFreak. Although the copyright holders use strong language, these notices are nothing simply warnings, and typically do not lead to legal action.
Every year, the major movie studios and record labels send out tens of thousands of warnings to Internet users suspected of sharing their content using P2P software, in order to persuade them to never download anything again. The copyright holders hire third parties to track down people who share certain their content. These companies then in turn request the files from others, log IP addresses of those who share files with them, look up the corresponding IP addresses, and automatically send out infringement notices.
ISPs are then asked to forward these notices to the customers in question, but in this case, Google has also been contacted. A few of the ones sent to Google are on behalf of Paramount Pictures and Columbia Pictures for sharing The Fighter and The Green Hornet, respectively.
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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. [link]
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best comment of the day!
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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."
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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?
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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
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*rofl* - what 're they up to? Pressing that big-red Mubarak switch and make google loose all its BGP-peerings world-wide? OMG. Stupid ******! Can't stop laughing...
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Google IS an ISP. Googles PROFIT is nearly the size of all of Hollywoods combined REVENUE. the MPAA is saber rattling the wrong people.
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You mean sharing their expression. Content cannot be copyrighted; only expression can. If you're confused, ask any IP lawyer.
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Benny26 said:
They've got the forums stirred up and got themselves a headline...That's a win for MPAA.
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.
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Google can just bomb their **** and close the MPAA
Or bribe them with the multi-trillions of money they have.
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Mpaa: Y u no stfu?
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Green Hornet looks like a small turd pile, but I am going to go bootleg it asap just because the MPAA don't want. And then I am going to mail three letters to MPAA members, each with a LIVING HUMAN TURD inside
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You best be trollin'
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I downloaded The Green Hornet already and gave it to a friend, Looks like a good movie.
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come on get real shutting down Google will be like shutting down half the world , looks to me is that someone else is ready to pounce on it as they realise it is a great money spinner , Leave Google alone we love it , cheers Cathy baker
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Good luck with that MPAA. It's like a Chihuahua barking at a Rottweiler. Please, MPAA, snap at Google.
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This is the absolute greatest idea I've read all day
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Google will swat the MPAA like the annoying little gnat it is. I hope this comes to fruition. I will enjoy it immensely. If we could only pit Google against Monsanto...
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Google will own MPAA and put them in their place. MPAA should not even try to go against google. Do they really think they are that powerful?
Anyways if MPAA is that stupid then have fun and to google don't let them down easy
.*checks my torrents statistics on my android phone*
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That would be great if google discounted them from half of the internet. They really think they can take on google it has youtube, its own ISP, Andriod, Google (search), Google Maps, Chrome, the list is endless...
MPAA can't even take down thepiratebay how do they expect to take down google. I think google should show them there place
. Also to google buying out MPAA and shutting them down I would so pay to support that (not saying it would ever happen) -
If Google got shut down there'd be a crowd bigger than the one in Egypt surrounding MPAA headquarters.
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You cannot cut back google, you will regret this!!!!!!
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perhaps the mpaa should just go away in sharp jerky movements...
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Ha ha ha.. good one MPAA. A world without Google!
I can't imagine what MPAA thinks about themselves. However this is bad even for a joke.. I'm from the other side of the planet and we don't give a sh** about MPAA, but we all love Google!
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Talk about, arrogance.
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