MPAA threatens to disconnect Google from the Internet

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.

"Copyright infringement also violates your ISP's terms of service and could lead to limitation or suspension of your Internet service. You should take immediate action to prevent your Internet account from being used for illegal activities," the movie companies write in various letters, according to TorrentFreak. Although the copyright holders use strong language, these notices are nothing simply warnings, and typically do not lead to legal action.

Every year, the major movie studios and record labels send out tens of thousands of warnings to Internet users suspected of sharing their content using P2P software, in order to persuade them to never download anything again. The copyright holders hire third parties to track down people who share certain their content. These companies then in turn request the files from others, log IP addresses of those who share files with them, look up the corresponding IP addresses, and automatically send out infringement notices.

ISPs are then asked to forward these notices to the customers in question, but in this case, Google has also been contacted. A few of the ones sent to Google are on behalf of Paramount Pictures and Columbia Pictures for sharing The Fighter and The Green Hornet, respectively.

I agree. Never used Google search due to their Dem and NSA affiliation but I do like their Google Earth thingy. A buddy of mine volunteers as an IT guy for Mozilla and their engineers reportedly hate Google more than anyone here.

>A few of the ones sent to Google are on behalf of Paramount Pictures and Columbia Pictures for sharing The Fighter and The Green Hornet, respectively.<

Absolutely idiotic. You don’t need Google for that. I DL...er, I mean my neighbor’s kid goes to every known torrent site and The Fighter and Green Hornet TS versions are on the front page.

The RIAA and MPAA are now causing lapses in National Security policies due to their buying of US Commerce Dept officials and using them and their private paid lobbyists to buy off legislators in Europe.

When the info was leaked to the various independent media outlets in Europe, several politicians and bureaucrats were forced to publicly recant, and the copyright trade agreements were nixed for the time being.

We now have a situation where US corporations that produce copyrighted works of a serious nature are being underminde d by the shysters from MPAA and RIAA making it impossible for software companies to defend their copyright claims in Europe.

The DoJ and Customs seizure of the Spanish sports media website domain might be the last straw, American corporations will be met with a wall of hostility in the coming years in Europe.

Iceland, Ireland, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Romania... have all told US trade reps to f*** off in the last few months.

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