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Then Google should be prosecuted.
by moffkalast 3y ago
Then Google should be prosecuted.
- justinclift 3y agoGoogle has enough lawyers to give the EU and US the run around when they want to. For smaller players, they'd have to think really carefully about whether they want to engage in multi-year litigation with them.
- WastingMyTime89 3y ago> Google has enough lawyers to give the EU and US the run around when they want to. Google has paid something like 10 billions dollars of fines in the EU during the last decade. I don’t think they are giving the run around to anyone.
- theturtletalks 3y agoAre you sure they paid it or they were ordered to do so? Most times, the fine is reduced or appealed ad infinitum.
- justinclift 3y agoYeah, lets wait a couple of decades and see how those court cases actually end up. Meanwhile, Google will just keep on Googling...
- einpoklum 3y agoAlphabet is valued at over 1.5 Trillion dollars. If they pay 1 Billion USD in fines per year, maybe their lawyers are actually doing an ok job for their client.
- red-iron-pine 3y agojust the cost of doing business at that point
- cykros 3y ago10 billion dollars is a rounding error for the GOOG.
- Thaxll 3y agoGoogle does not host it links, it's very different. Google does not store files it should not.
- cykros 3y agoWell, they do, at Youtube. But they're pretty good about takedowns over there. Including of a ton of content that has no reason to be taken down.
- hnaccount141 3y agoTorrent trackers don’t host the content either.
- happymellon 3y agoThat's not Google's primary purpose.
- B1FF_PSUVM 3y agoWell, printing was going to be for instruction. And then radio. And TV. And the internet. We're so instructed we've gotta wear ad-blockers.
- zx8080 3y agoInstruction.. on what to buy, how to live and what to want.
- gersg 3y agoGoogle takes down content when they get notified, rarbg doesn't.
- internetter 3y agoCan't speak for rarbg, but plenty of piracy adjacent sites have a DMCA takedown program[0] to operate under this loophole. That way, most content survives but they are "protected" [0]: https://annas-archive.org/copyright https://annas-archive.org/copyright
- ipaddr 3y agoChanging the url daily works as the dmca complaint refers to a specific page.
- moffkalast 3y agoI've yet to see Google not return a piratebay link at any point in history. Is it a loophole where they take it down, but their indexer then immediately puts it back in the next pass, lol?
- NoMoreNicksLeft 3y agoIt's been 5 or 6 years ago now, but one night I searched for torrents for a particular movie, and Google returned hundreds of results from a dozen sites... and the next evening they returned 0. I think it was an October. While I don't doubt that a torrent link shows up once in awhile, Google no longer usefully searches for such things. Or really anything, legal or not. It's more like a purchase recommendation system pretending to be a search engine.