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This could turn out great. The music industry sues Google for linking to sites like The Pirate Bay, and Google with its deep pockets successfully defends linkin
by avar 16y ago
This could turn out great. The music industry sues Google for linking to sites like The Pirate Bay, and Google with its deep pockets successfully defends linking in count. That might set precedence not only for general search engines like Google, but also torrent search engines like The Pirate Bay.
- CodeMage 16y agoMaybe I'm not as cynical and jaded as I should be, but I still believe that lawsuits are not won by deep pockets, at least not exclusively.
- rfrey 16y agoI think the point is that Google has deep enough pockets to defend against the also-deep pockets of the music distributors. Lawsuits aren't won by deep pockets, but it often takes deep pockets to defend, and lack of defense is the same as losing.
- dagw 16y agoThe music industry will never let it go so far as to a court case which will set that sort of precedence. They may be dumb, but they aren't that stupid.
- gojomo 16y agoOr Google could go the way they went with the Authors' Guild/Book-Scanning settlement: start by arguing the principle of indexing-for-fair-use, but then cave when a settlement is possible which grants them a unique leading position over all competitors. That is, they'd grant that such linking is illegal for the industry -- setting the exact precedent the rightsholders want -- but then strike a license that lets them continue linking on terms few others could manage.
- qq66 16y agoReminds me of Marbury v. Madison...