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Why downvote this? It's a valid comment. A 'good' action would be for Google to revoke Rumblefish's takedown ability, and force them to use a real DMCA reques
by jobu 15y ago
Why downvote this? It's a valid comment. A 'good' action would be for Google to revoke Rumblefish's takedown ability, and force them to use a real DMCA request. At least that would allow for legal recourse when Rumblefish commits fraud.
- SideburnsOfDoom 15y agoIf you really want to debate if this was evil or not (and if it becomes less evil if you outsource it, pass the buck or bend over to big content) then there was a HackerNews discussion (Maybe two or three...) on this topic. People trotted out their apologies there for this unacceptable action, so I'm sure there are good rebuttals there. The basic question that I asked was: Why is MS held to a different standard to the big guys of the internet (chiefly Apple, Facebook, Google, Oracle, paypal/ebay)? What recent actions do we have to compare them on?
- icebraining 15y agoThe basic question that I asked was: Why is MS held to a different standard to the big guys of the internet (chiefly Apple, Facebook, Google, Oracle, paypal/ebay)? What recent actions do we have to compare them on? Why does it have to be recent? Should we just whitewash the past? It was ten years ago, not in the 19th century. They even have the same CEO. But in any case, they're still extorting companies using their grotesque FAT patents.
- nkassis 15y agoWhat about the secure boot story http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/01/microsoft-mandating-secure-boot-on-arm-making-linux-installs-difficult.ars http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/01/microsoft-manda... That's recent and it is evil. Microsoft never was completely evil they just put the mighty dollar above everything else including software quality.
- SideburnsOfDoom 15y agoGood answer, thanks. I agree that MS is profit-driven. I just don't see how that puts them on a different plane from Facebook, Google, Apple, Oracle, Paypal et al.
- knewter 15y agoIf Google sells ads to me, or my personal information that I gave them down the road, then that affects me. If Microsoft uses their power to force future hardware to be unable to boot linux / other FOSS OSes, then that affects me WAY MORE. So much more that I consider such actions to be on a different plane.
- SideburnsOfDoom 15y agoGoogle and Apple are both involved in OS and hardware. Their locking decisions could be comparable, i.e. on the same plane.