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Google Looks To Cut Funds To Illegal Sites

Posted by samzenpus on Monday February 18, 2013 @05:04AM from the drying-up-the-well dept.

rbrandis writes "Google is in discussions with payment companies including Visa, MasterCard and PayPal to put illegal download websites out of existence by cutting off their funding. If Google goes ahead with the radical move, it would not mark the first time that illegal websites have been diminished or driven out of business by having a block put on their source of money."

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Re:AKA Google drives Bitcoin Into Mainstream use by amiga3D · 2013-02-18 05:21 · Score: 5, Funny

Don't worry, the RIAA are going to sue them for patent infringement.
Re:AKA Google drives Bitcoin Into Mainstream use by tripleevenfall · 2013-02-18 05:26 · Score: 4, Funny

Bitcoin reportedly tried to buy off a number of politicians, but the pols reneged when the bribes were provided in some sort of opaque pretend-currency.
Bye, bye Youtube... by flyingfsck · 2013-02-18 05:37 · Score: 3, Funny

So I take it that Youtube will be cut off then?

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Re:Difference between "currency" and "legal tender by asylumx · 2013-02-18 06:19 · Score: 4, Funny

an understanding that if I do this for you, you'll do something for me later
Sounds like a first date if I've ever heard one described...