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Google Sues Mississippi Attorney General For Conspiring With Movie Industry

ideonexus writes: Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood has called for a "time out" in his perpetual fight with Google in response to the company filing a lawsuit against him for conspiring with the movie industry to persecute the search giant. Leaked Sony Pictures Entertainment emails and documents obtained under FOIA requests this week have exposed how the Motion Picture Association of America was colluding with and lobbying state prosecutors to go after Google, even going so far as to "assigned a team of lawyers to prepare draft subpoenas and legal briefs for the attorneys general" to make it easier for them to persecute the company. Here's the full complaint (PDF).

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  1. Who cares? It's the state that time forgot. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does anybody even want to live in Mississippi? I'm pretty sure it's the worst state in the Union for a reason.

    The rest of the country should just build a wall around it, and put all the politicians and lawyers there.

  2. Re:haha by lucm · · Score: 4, Funny

    this time it's to hide their own collusion, racketeering, bribery and likely other violations of federal law.

    I wonder if the other inmates will appreciate her opinion that piracy is stealing when she's in the state pen

    No, they will be too busy wondering how she ended up in the state pen for violation of federal law.

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    lucm, indeed.
  3. Re:Who cares? It's the state that time forgot. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wyoming is just one of those imaginary states like Idaho and East Prussia.