UK MPs: Google Blocks Child Abuse Images, It Should Block Piracy Too

nk497 writes "If Google can block child abuse images, it can also block piracy sites, according to a report from MPs, who said they were 'unimpressed' by Google's 'derisorily ineffective' efforts to battle online piracy, according to a Commons Select Committee report looking into protecting creative industries. John Whittingdale MP, the chair of the Committee — and also a non-executive director at Audio Network, an online music catalogue — noted that Google manages to remove other illegal content. 'Google and others already work with international law enforcement to block for example child porn from search results and it has provided no coherent, responsible reason why it can't do the same for illegal, pirated content,' he said."

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Rent-seekers are out in force today

[benjfowler]

If the content producers succeed in demanding -- and getting -- the right to force other people to prop up their business model at their own expense, it could open the gates of Hell for anybody with an oversized sense of entitlement to do the same.

Google are quite within their rights to tell the "creative" industry parasites to go and fuck themselves. If people are stealing their stuff, it's THEIR problem that their failing business models aren't keeping up with reality.

There's ALWAYS some arsehole out there who thinks the world owes him a living.