Google Accused of Benefitting From Piracy 162
Clant writes "Google has been accused of benefiting from certain piracy websites because of the Adsense program, according to reports. Several major media companies have called on Google to properly screen their AdSense partners and stop supporting sites that are benefiting from piracy. 'Legal filings show that Google worked with EasyDownloadCenter.com and TheDownloadPlace.com from 2003 to 2005, generating more than $1.1 million in revenue for the sites through the AdSense program. Google reportedly noticed the amount of traffic and advertising served by the two websites and assigned them an account representative to help optimize their efforts.'"
In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
The gub'mint is also looking into allegations that Dell has profited from selling computers to known spammers.
Re:Not Evil? (Score:2, Funny)
Google then:
Google now(stock price near 500):
Re:Common carrier laws for advertisers (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Hardly... (Score:1, Funny)
Or suppose one of your customers regularly parks on yellow lines. Obviously you'd refuse to ever do business with him again! Of course the difference is that parking illegally can have serious consequences for road safety and/or congestion, unlike copyright infringement.
Re:Lawful, good? (Score:1, Funny)
Really? (Score:5, Funny)
Guess we learn something new every day!
The Chewbacca Offense (Score:3, Funny)
These website operators have the money - or the liquidatable assets - to make good on any judgment against them. Instead, they choose to sue children, old people, and disabled people, none of whom have pockets deep enough to pay out the outrageous sums the Mafiaa is claiming as damages, even though it's estimated that they lose money on every one of these lawsuits.
So what? Microsoft benefits from piracy too (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Guilty by association? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Hardly... (Score:4, Funny)
Actually, copyright infringement DOES have serious consequences for road congestion! You see, the internet is not a dumptruck. It is a series of tubes. Downloading clogs the tubes, slowing the internets down for everyone else.