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

Posted by timothy on from the blacklist-provided-by-democracy dept.

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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  1. Rent-seekers are out in force today by benjfowler · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

  2. Re:Totally agree. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Piracy has done two things:

    1: Killed the music industry. In the past, there were decent bands as mainstream stuff. Now, we are going to get Biebers, GaGas, and some bimbo who can twerk on stage instead of Beatles, Pink Floyd, and other bands which their music sets them apart, not public sex acts. Good music was pirated to death, and the music industry moved to shows and concerts which flash is everything. An upcoming Trent Reznor just selling music can't cut it these days unless they can perform onstage.

    2: Killed the movie industry. Same exact thing, indies make no money, so Hollywood is forced to churn out the exact cookie-cutter crap to make money year after year.

    So, I have to thank the pirates, they have completely given us content-free movies and music.

    Next on list I'm sure are ebooks, although the DRM there is good enough to not be seriously broken (seen a de-drmed iBook lately?)