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From the book author's blog it seems more that his account was flagged because he linked to his book on The Pirate Bay and Demonoid.

• Natsu 14y ago
  Yeah. As much as I hate the policy, there are a ton of people just waiting to sue Google over infringement or inducement, so they probably feel that they had to have blanket bans on AdSense for people linking to the Pirate Bay.
  • mtgx 14y ago
    TPB is not an inherently illegal site. Legal content can be offered through torrents and TPB. But the question is, why is Google acting like judge and executioner? I won't even go into the fact that I think linking to no matter what should never be illegal. I'm starting to get tired of Google favoring the label and studio cartel and being against the regular people through Youtube's ContentID system and through increasingly more stuff like this, just because they'd rather be on the safe side.
    • Natsu 14y ago
      > But the question is, why is Google acting like judge and executioner? Because there are lots of people who make sites that are essentially pirate content + ads and there are lots of people who will sue Google if they find them sending money to a pirate site. I'm assuming this was an algorithmic mistake, but you can understand how it's hard for them to research the copyright status of each thing. I mean, hypothetically, what if this guy was lying about it being his own work, or the copyright was disputed by someone? Google ends up in the middle of it and there's no real upside for them, because there are a lot of people who are quite simply out to get Google over copyrights.
  • duskwuff 14y ago
    > There are a ton of people just waiting to sue Google over infringement or inducement, so they probably feel that they had to have blanket bans on AdSense for people linking to the Pirate Bay. It's not even a matter of Google being sued -- sites that link to pirated content are frequently sites that advertisers don't want their ads to run on, even if those sites are perfectly legal.