MPAA Threatens To Disconnect Google From Internet 468
An anonymous reader writes "Over the last few months, Google has received more than 100 copyright infringement warnings from MPAA-affiliated movies studios. Most are directed at users of Google's public Wi-Fi service, but others are meant for Google employees. The MPAA is thus warning the search giant that it might get disconnected from the Internet. Although the copyright holders use strong language, these notices are simply warnings, and typically do not lead to legal action."
Re:Moving the earth rather than changing themselve (Score:5, Funny)
> No law is adequate, no business is more important, no constitutional right can supersede the wishes of the commercial content industry.
G'kar, I know your government did some sketchy things to raise money during the Earth-Mimbari war, but speaking for the MPAA? Dude, go back to the arms sales. Much more honorable.
Re:I think it's time (Score:4, Funny)
I can't even imagine how comical this would be, because the next step would be MPAA suing google alleging something like trademark infringement or felony interference of a business model or something else made up, along the lines of "it was illegal to de-index us".
Re:I think it's time (Score:5, Funny)
I can see it now:
"No results found for 'MPAA'. Did you mean 'NAMBLA'?"
Re:I think it's time (Score:5, Funny)
I was going to make the joke "Who's MPAA? Google search turns up nothing."
Then I could say "Bing doesn't have anything either. WTF?"
But it's just too easy.
Re:I think it's time (Score:2, Funny)
When it comes to Hollywood, I'm cheering for the fault line.