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Adult Site Sues Google, Google Compared To MS Again
daria42 writes "It looks like Adult magazine publisher Perfect 10 is suing Google to stop the search engine giant from using images of models in the images part of its search engine. The publisher has alleged Google is in breach of its copyright by displaying more than 3,000 photos." From the article: "Perfect 10 first became aware of Google serving up text links to other Web sites that allegedly carried copyright images of Perfect 10 models back in 2001, Zada said in an interview on Thursday. The company then sent notices to Google, under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, asking the search giant to discontinue linking to the other sites." Additionally, with users writing to mention that that Google has changed their 10 Things statement recently, yet another article comparing them to Microsoft was bound to turn up. From the Sydney Herald article: "The question is whether the young upstarts who have built a hugely profitable business on Google's anti-corporate image are on the way to following Gates's path from bright young turk to monopolistic behemoth." Update: 08/26 13:27 GMT by Z : xmas2003 points out that the requested injunction is part of the suit Perfect 10 brought against Google last November, which we have previously reported on.
2. It's best to do one thing really, really well. (From Google's 10 things)
They should listen to their own philosophy...because they seem be trying to do 100 things "ok", and maybe 3 or 4 things really really well. When was the last time they made an innovation in search?
But then again, lawyers have got to make a living...
why should Perfect 10 be responsible for monitoring ALL webservices/search engines/etc from ALL companies and look for abuse of their property? And when they find such abuse, Perfect 10 must read this page, got here, do that, type these letters in the boxes, shiggle you winkydink, etc, etc.
I could understand if this was Opt-IN, BUT IT'S OPT-OUT!!
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Oh the irony of this signature in the context of your post...
"Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is." G.W.Bush
Going after Google, which is merely showing thumbnails of publicly available (whether legitimately or otherwise) is missing the point entirely
As said in another thread, Napster was just showing mp3s publicly available (whether legitimately or otherwise). They took it down anyways.
Of course, the problem has different configuration here, in that Google is not used primarily to circumvent copyright. But still, in the hard facts, Google is like Napster was.
As soon as the they stop linking to "we split the story into 30 ad-ridden pages" stories I'll start reading TFA.
ok?
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.