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Microsoft Attacks Google on Copyright

Posted by Hemos on from the how-is-blistering-is-blistering dept.

The Microsoft Corporation has prepared a blistering attack on rival Google, arguing that the Web search leader takes a cavalier approach to copyright protection. The attack, such as it were, came from Microsoft's Associate General Counsel who was giving a speech to the Association of American Publishers...who have a copyright lawsuit against Google for the last sixteen months. So, an audience ready to hear about how Bad Google is.

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  1. Oh boy. by Sneakernets · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let the chairs fly!

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    1. Re:Oh boy. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      Yeah because Google branded evil is so much better than Microsoft branded evil.

  2. Microsoft's half finished sentence. by pallmall1 · · Score: 5, Funny
    From TFA:

    Microsoft, he said, asks the copyrights owner for permission first...
    They should have added:

    ...unless it's software.
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    1. Re:Microsoft's half finished sentence. by Austerity+Empowers · · Score: 2, Funny

      Microsoft asks the copyright owner for a business arrangement in which both parties can get rich at the expense of the consumer. That is somehow less evil because I used the "business" word.

    2. Re:Microsoft's half finished sentence. by j00r0m4nc3r · · Score: 3, Funny

      asks the copyrights owner for permission

      They ask permission like the mafia asks permission.

  3. Yeah... by Moggyboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft guy: "And... and... stop creating tools that people actually find USEFUL and giving them out for FREE, goddamnit! And... and... ummm... Google is a stupid name... and... ummm..."

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  4. Bad Google by ack154 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just how is "Bad Google" these days? I haven't seen him in ages!

    What is with the capital B?!

  5. blistering? by oohshiny · · Score: 2, Funny

    Whining and throwing tantrums is not a "blistering attack".

  6. Is this April 1st? by tkrotchko · · Score: 5, Funny

    This sounds like an April Fools article.

    Next Article:
        RIAA concerned about musicians being ripped off by lopsided contracts

    After that:
        Auto Makers insist Congress must tighten emissions and fuel economy standards.

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  7. Re:More fun from TFA by iluvcapra · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd love it if Google said something like..."All right , no soup for you" and then just delisted everything that had anything to do with them.

    That comes dangerously close to Google abusing its search monopoly.

    on mystupidsitcom.abc.disney.com

    You mean mystupidsitcom.abc.disney.go.com. They paid a lot of money for the "go.com" TLD, and damn it they're gonna use it!

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  8. The real deal by Vexorian · · Score: 2, Funny

    Microsoft might be preparing the ground to a software patents law suit against google. They patented evil after all...

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  9. ouch! by rilister · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Competition is heating up between Google, the world's dominant search engine, and Microsoft, which recently entered the Web search market."

    OUCH! That's gotta hurt...

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  10. Re:English? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The whooshing sound you're hearing is the sentence-fragment joke whizzing over your head. Don't worry, you'll catch the next one.