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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. Re:AKA Google drives Bitcoin Into Mainstream use by Runaway1956 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Actually, most first world governments have abdicated the right and responsibility for minting currency, in favor of the world bank, and it's subsidiary national central banks. For instance, the "Federal Reserve" bank.

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