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p2pnet.net News:- Google is in movie trouble again. But this time, it’s nothing to do with its newly acquired YouTube.
Rather, France’s Flach Film has issued a writ against Google and its French arm Google France for copyright infringement, says Reuters.
Flach is complaining that its The World According to Bush is being distributed by Google for free and is demanding compensation for lost online business, says the story.
“Who are the Bushes?” - asks Flach, going on:
Apparently, the ‘quiet dynasty’ of modern America. But in reality a ‘dynasty’ whose inconceivable family secrets are painstakingly concealed. The grandfather of the current President, Prescott Bush, made his fortune by managing Nazi companies after Hitler seized power. In 1942, his companies were confiscated for collaboration with the enemy. George Bush Senior, Ronald Reagan’s Vice-President and then President from 1988 to 1992, armed and financed Saddam Hussein. He approved the shipping of germ warfare strains to Iraq, thus enabling the country to launch a chemical attack against Iranian troops and the Kurdish population.
This film aims to pass through the looking glass and to show how the Bushes, father and son, have not only dined with the devil but have often invited themselves to his table. The bin Ladens and the Bushes have always been business partners and the family of the future terrorist chief indirectly financed George W. Bush’s political career. This unnatural alliance has continued since the September 11 attacks: Bush Senior is a top official in one of the biggest private investment funds in the USA, Carlyle, a group that has invested heavily in the arms industry: the Bradley tanks and the missiles used in the latest war against Iraq are made by firms controlled by Carlyle… and the bin Ladens. For the latter are Bush’s associates within this investment fund.
The World According to Bush is accessible free on Google Video France, “through a simple click, as a stream or a download, and according to Google’s own sources, had had in excess of 43,000 hits in ‘a very short period’,” says Reuters.
“Never before in the history of the world’s democracies have one man and his team acted with such arrogance and impunity, defying international law and creating an unprecedented grouping of interests: the project blends politics and personal interests in an atmosphere of total cynicism,” says the Flach site.
The film’s producer Jean-Francois Lepetit says Google cut the web links to the film after being notified of Flach’s legal action, says Reuters, adding:
” ‘We made estimates of the prejudice and its goes well beyond 500,000 euros ($648,700). The film has been downloaded about 50,000 times and it has certainly been copied afterwards,’ Lepetit said in a telephone interview.”
Also See:
Reuters - Film producer sues Google France, November 23, 2006
Flach - A film by William Karel in collaboration with Eric Laurent
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November 23rd, 2006 at 7:21 pm
well at least the bush regime will end with W. I mean i can’t actually believe people would vote in another bush after this fiasco. Not that what we vote actually matters but I would hope the american people wouldn’t let it happen again.
I hadn’t heard of this movie but looks like ill have to watch it now.
November 24th, 2006 at 7:37 pm
Hurry , the probably will remove the right to see it soon enough
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