Turkey Bans Google's Blogger Over Soccer Piracy

An anonymous reader writes "A local court has banned Google's Blogger service in Turkey in response to a complaint by satellite TV firm Digiturk that streaming media feeds from local soccer games were appearing on multiple Blogger profiles. Unsurprisingly, Google criticized the move, given that everyone is suffering over a few people's illegal actions. Copyright holders should target the individuals that are distributing the infringing content via an established complaints procedure rather than having the parent site banned. An estimated 600,000 Turks use the service to blog about anything from daily ramblings, to hobbies, to keeping their readers updated with the news."

Comments

Good. Now can we please...

[Gordonjcp]

... ban football everywhere else? On the radio, too, that would be great. Thanks.

Just about every news programme and half of everything else has had some reference to two football managers having a squabble over what is essentially a children's game with a bit of a subtext of religious war. It would be great if we could get them all to shut up about it.

Obviously this story's fake.

[Zorque]

I mean, come on. Who would pirate soccer.