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Google Looks To Cut Funds To Illegal Sites

Posted by samzenpus on 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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  1. FUD Campaign continuing by openfrog · · Score: 5, Informative

    I have mod points, but not finding anyone questioning this source... Have you RTFA? This is The Telegraph! There is no source cited AT ALL. You don't know who said what in which context. Nothing.

    Microsoft has hired the CEO of Burton-Marsteller with the official function of spreading FUD on Google.

    But frankly, this sounds more like this comes from The Onion... Nobody here questions sources anymore?