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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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Yahoo.......! Ya-Right........
You can't disconnect Google for this reason; people might start switching their search engine to "Yahoo". "Yahoo" makes such a lousy verb. The word lives and dies as an interjection! That said, you will always be able to "Google" something, but you'll never be able to "Yahoo" something.
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Captaincranky said:
You can't disconnect Google for this reason; people might start switching their search engine to "Yahoo". "Yahoo" makes such a lousy verb. The word lives and dies as an interjection! That said, you will always be able to "Google" something, but you'll never be able to "Yahoo" something.
Hmmm....Still works for advertising though:
"Can't find that important item and don't know what to do?.....Just Yahoo!"
Eh?...No?
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you will always be able to "Google" something
Strangely enough none of the people I know actually use this; we always end up saying 'search for it' or 'search this' ..... Google as a 'word' as such isn't important frankly, although many use Google to do just that.
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Strangely enough none of the people I know actually use this; we always end up saying 'search for it' or 'search this' ..... Google as a 'word' as such isn't important frankly, although many use Google to do just that.Listen,you have to "Google" for porn. That's just the way it is, and that's the way it will always be. You can in no way "Yahoo" for porn. Plus, if you say, "I'm going to "search" for porn, it really doesn't come off as obscene enough..After all, "Google" does rhyme quite well with, "oogle"**.
(**) Do you think that's where "Google" came from, "oogle" contracted with another word? I'd "Yahoo" it, but frankly I simply don't care enough to do an "internet search" to find out.
"Can't find that important item and don't know what to do?.....Just Yahoo!"Yeah right, that sounds like your spurs would get in the way of trying to type with your feet...... .,...Yaaaa- Whoooooooo........(?) -
Lokalaskurar said:
Guest said:Okey, but without google the internet keeps working, right?
Sure, it'll simply be some minor panic and crisis everywhere.
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Listen,you have to "Google" for porn.
I think to conceal what you actually are looking for ....... it will be better to say 'Google for oogle' ? But according to urban dictionary 'Oogles' are street rats, they are the ICP kids, the tweekers on bikes, the 15 year olds who runaway cause they think it's cool, not cause their lives at home weren't working out.
Beside saying 'Yahoo' for porn would mean almost everyone in the neighborhood will know what you are upto.
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wizardB said:
Just dogpile,com it and be done
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I agree with the people that hopefully Google can put MPAA in it's place. I don't know what they're thinking taking Google on. When a company is such a trademark that their title is synonymous with an action (Instead of 'Search for it on the internet' it's 'Google it'), they're a bit out of your league.
I almost hope they do try something, I can't see Google taking that well.
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I think to conceal what you actually are looking for ....... it will be better to say 'Google for oogle' ? But according to urban dictionary 'Oogles' are street rats, they are the ICP kids, the tweekers on bikes, the 15 year olds who runaway cause they think it's cool, not cause their lives at home weren't working out.Well Arch, you seem to have fallen into a contemporary information trap. If I want the definition a a word, I rely on trusted sources such as, "Merriam Webster", or perhaps, "Random House", not some transient BS cooked up by a bunch of people that shouldn't matter, for and about people that shouldn't matter.
Beside saying 'Yahoo' for porn would mean almost everyone in the neighborhood will know what you are upto.
That's like asking "Snookie" for advice about brain surgery.
(Incidentally, "google" has been added to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, as a transitive verb. It's right between "goofy" and "googly-eyed". Doubtless a place of summary distinction).
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Mizzou said:Google has received more than 100 copyright infringement warnings from MPAA-affiliated movies studios
I honestly don't know how big the Google user base is but this strikes me as a very small number ... pretty weak.
Same thing crossed my mind, that number is tiny and feels like a waste of time. Google is the bigger Goliath here to begin with so I don't get what the MPAA thinks they can do besides make themselves look even more foolish and out of touch.
Problem is, the MPAA owns more senators.
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