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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Re:You'd cheer were it Exxon instead of Google

[hawguy]

And between Exxon and Google, guess which one has a private jumbo jet for its executives...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...

Exxon has at least 4 $50M Global Express and 4 $20M Challenger 500 jets.

The difference, of course, is that Google doesn't own their jets, they are owned by a separate LLC started by the founders that use the jets.

Another Chris Dodd faux pas

[Anonymous Coward]

The MPAA is led by disgraced former Senator Chris Dodd, famous for being on the take from Countrywide Mortgage as a "Friends of Angelo" Mozilo member in good standing. Wonder if this little project with the studios meets anti-trust law violation thresholds....