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MPAA threatens to disconnect Google from the Internet
Tech Spot ^
| 8 February 2011
| Emil Protalinski
Posted on 02/10/2011 10:40:22 AM PST by ShadowAce
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02/10/2011 10:40:24 AM PST
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ShadowAce
To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; JosephW; ...
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posted on
02/10/2011 10:41:09 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce
To: ShadowAce
I’m torn on this one. I think the MPAA is a bunch of goons, but at the same time it’s nice to see Google getting slapped with these.
Best case scenario would be that Google and the MPAA beat each other into oblivion with lawsuits to the point that they can’t bother anyone else any longer.
To: ShadowAce
Google is far, far sleazier than Microsoft...but at least they do have engineers capable of giving us things that work...mostly.
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posted on
02/10/2011 10:47:01 AM PST
by
Da Coyote
To: ShadowAce
The recording industry mafia strikes again...
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posted on
02/10/2011 10:47:59 AM PST
by
TSgt
(Colonel Allen West & Michele Bachman - 2012 POTUS Dream Team Ticket!)
To: ShadowAce
Google is a huge leftist org.
Stopping them is a good thing.
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posted on
02/10/2011 10:50:15 AM PST
by
NoLibZone
(Obama must be impeached and tried for treason.)
To: ShadowAce
Oh my!! Google might get its comcast account suspended? That was the answer all along! Google would be helpless without an ISP to access the internet! Snicker,,,
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posted on
02/10/2011 10:55:26 AM PST
by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
To: ShadowAce
Your search - The Green Hornet - did not match any documents.
Suggestions:
- Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
- Try different keywords.
- Try more general keywords.
- Try fewer keywords.
- Read a book or go out for a walk instead of watching a Hollywood movie.
- Stop threatening Google or else no one will be able to find your movie and will soon forget that it was ever released.
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posted on
02/10/2011 10:58:16 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Washington is finally rid of the Kennedies. Free at last, thank God almighty we are free at last.)
To: ShadowAce
I am *so* gonna squat on that domain name if it becomes available!
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posted on
02/10/2011 10:58:36 AM PST
by
Tanniker Smith
(I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
To: KarlInOhio
Funny! And true,,, mpaa is a gnat buzzing in the ear of google.
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posted on
02/10/2011 11:00:57 AM PST
by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
To: ShadowAce
Looks like the MPAA found some deep-pockets to extort.
You go, girls.
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posted on
02/10/2011 11:10:50 AM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." -- Barry Soetoro, June 11, 2008)
To: Da Coyote
Dogpile is so much better
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posted on
02/10/2011 11:20:27 AM PST
by
Emperor Palpatine
(I'm shocked! Shocked to find out that gambling is going on in here!)
To: NoLibZone
So would stopping the MPAA.
There’s nothing more left than the Hollyweird studios.
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posted on
02/10/2011 11:21:28 AM PST
by
Emperor Palpatine
(I'm shocked! Shocked to find out that gambling is going on in here!)
To: DesertRhino
Just remember that one lil' 17' torpedo boat sank the 30,000 ton pride of the Austro-Hungarian navy,
St Isztvan"
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posted on
02/10/2011 11:27:40 AM PST
by
Emperor Palpatine
(I'm shocked! Shocked to find out that gambling is going on in here!)
To: ShadowAce
Even with the leftist bent of Google execs I would side with them on this one. MPAA is threatening thousands of jobs at Google and I will guarantee you the large majority of their employees are not leftists like they are. Google as well as Dogpile and Bing are extremely useful tools and they all employ a lot of people who again should not be assumed to be all liberal. I side with maintaining as many jobs as possible rather than destroying more jobs and more of the economy. Besides, if they succeed with Google MPAA will next turn it’s socialist sights on Microsoft and Dogpile and whomever else they think they can get money out of.
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posted on
02/10/2011 11:34:25 AM PST
by
RJS1950
(The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
To: Nightshift
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posted on
02/10/2011 11:54:31 AM PST
by
tutstar
To: Emperor Palpatine
Cute,,, but a useless analogy. Call me when a torpedo boat sinks Japan. Or even better, when a torpedo boat sinks a ship that just bought them. Psssst,,, don’t let this secret out, but google is currently deciding how to best BECOME an isp without wasting time buying a legacy provider using dated infrastructure. MPAA is in waaaaay over their heads.
lets say google instantly freezes out mpaa protected material. Lets say google moves offshore,,, or say google just purchases the main benefactors that support mpaa. (the studios are not doing so well).
and remember,,, mpaa is trying to play on googles turf. Hows that torpedo boat going to work in the high seas of the center of the Atlantic,,, in winter?
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posted on
02/10/2011 11:55:42 AM PST
by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
To: paladin1_dcs
Kinda like seeing the two biggest schoolyard bullies going after each other...
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posted on
02/10/2011 11:57:55 AM PST
by
bigbob
To: ShadowAce
It’s like watching the movie, “Unforgiven.” There are NO good guys in this one.
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