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>The fact that they haven't rectified this in their own search engine should be pretty good evidence that copying and piracy are not, in fact, "theft" and that
by recoiledsnake 14y ago
>The fact that they haven't rectified this in their own search engine should be pretty good evidence that copying and piracy are not, in fact, "theft" and that they don't represent lost sales
What? Does not compute.
- ajross 14y agoIf MS truly felt they were losing money, they'd shut down the links. Bing links are, for obvious reasons, much easier to shut down than Google links. But they didn't. You can do the rest of the computation.
- clarky07 14y agoNever attribute to malice that which can easily be explained by incompetence.
- rbanffy 14y agoIt's much easier to do when the incompetence is not this selective.
- cpeterso 14y agoIf MS removed those links from Bing, then people might complain that MS is selectively altering search results for its own benefit. (I'm only half-joking.)
- duaneb 14y agoMore likely the legal team just forgot that Bing exists.
- recoiledsnake 14y agoSo why are they then contracting out the takedown notices to a third party which must be charging them a whole bunch for sending notices for hundreds of thousands of links? Just to make Bing better and Google worse for 0.01% of popular illegal downloads? Again, does not compute.