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You know what DDG is doing is illegal, right? Google Images used to link to direct images as well. But then there were lawsuit threats and a settlement with Get

• skellera 8y ago
  It's not illegal. They were sued then Getty dropped the suit when Google agreed to partner with them and remove the links. https://9to5google.com/2018/02/09/google-images-features-getty-deal/ https://9to5google.com/2018/02/09/google-images-features-get...
• clarry 8y ago
  Lawsuit threats don't make something illegal. The case with linking is far from settled. Legal or not, I don't care though. But I do look forward to highly anonymized p2p networks with useful services and software we can rely on by the time the lawmakers have made the internet useless.
• herewegoagain90 8y ago
  Interesting! These makes me remember the documentary/movie “Bananas!” which was about the criminal behaviour of the fruit- and vegetable company Dole. During the making the Americans involved in the making got so scared of being sued their house from them that they left the project. The swedes never cared about the threats from Dole. This also made the news on Sweden that even parliament members backed the project and said that Doles threats where so unethical. Having said that, I think Goggle is just hiding behind the lawsuit threats.