Porn site sues Amazon
p2pnet.net News:- In march, Agence France Presse sued Google for $17.5m for, because, said AFP, Google was using copyrighted stories and pix without paying royalties. So Google axed the French news agency from its news service.
Now a Naked Ladies site is suing Amazon because its A9.com search engine is infringing copyright by displaying thousands of the Web site’s explicit images in response to computer users’ searches, says the Associated Press.
Beverly Hills-based Perfect 10 Inc wants an injunction against the Seattle-based retailer and unspecified damages, says the story, pointing out that, Under U.S. copyright laws, plaintiffs can seek up to $150,000 for each instance their copyrights are infringed upon.
Amazon.com spokeswoman Patty Smith said Thursday she couldn’t comment on the lawsuit because the company hadn’t seen it yet, says AP, adding:
Perfect 10 claims it has sent several warning notices to Google and Amazon, but both sites continue to display some 2,500 images from Perfect 10 and other adult Web sites without permission.
p2pnet spokesman Elmer Gytrichkwik said p2pnet will soon be suing Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, and other search sites, for unspecified damages for displaying p2pnet stories and graphics without paying for the privilege.
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See:-
Google axed – Google to dump AFP, March 22, 2005
Associated Press – Amazon Sued for Copyright Infringement, June 30, 2005
July 1st, 2005 at 7:09 pm
I’m with Elmer on this one. I can’t believe the audacity of these search engines myself. What gives them the right to wander round your site and copy everything they find? Those scumbags insist on then making this information freely available to anyone who cares to look, bringing hordes of unwelcome visitors, chewing up bandwidth and pushing up your monthly payments to your host. Websites are best left alone, their true role is simply to exist. We need not tarnish these wonderful creatures by clicking on their links and should be content in the knowledge that the internet is there, somewhere.
On the other hand, there’s no such thing as bad publicity.
July 1st, 2005 at 8:50 pm
This is the very sort of mentality that is needed to show the idiocy of DMCA and other like rulings that the US has thrown up to protect the media industry. Not to mention how much copyright has gotten out of hand in the same sort of protectionism.
What is really needed is to lay it on those same media industries these sort of lawsuits. I would imagine if several of these giant corporations cratered from just such reactions in court there would be a mass movement to restore the balance. Till then, please have at it. Just remember, your fortune is only a lawsuit away!
July 2nd, 2005 at 1:11 am
so, if i have an online photo album and i google my unique photo names and google finds them, i can sue them for millions?
that’s great! where do i sign up?
July 2nd, 2005 at 3:44 pm
A precedent needs to be set that disallows lawsuits against Internet indexing services such as Google or Yahoo simply for spidering your site and adding it to the search index. By using the ROBOTS.TXT file, you can disallow any or all search engines from spidering certain sections or even all of the website rather easily. By not using this exclusion standard, you can’t complain later if they index your stuff, because you knew better and you didn’t do anything to tell them you didn’t want them to spider it.
July 2nd, 2005 at 4:09 pm
This site is always filled with a very liberal take on p2p. Yet it still targets its only free exposure through an almost perfect example of p2p news on google. This is how i found out about your site, and i am sure i am not the only one. Why target something you gain from? Why become one of those people your site targets on a daily basis. I know i would personally stop viewing this site out of disgust.
July 2nd, 2005 at 5:51 pm
Relax. I was kidding. Although I admit, I’d love to do be able to afford to do it just to be able to point the situation up ; )
Cheers!
July 2nd, 2005 at 9:27 pm
I think Elmer’s last name was a little too obscure for a small number of people Jon!
But as I said before, There’s no such thing as bad publicity. I for one hadn’t even heard of Amazon’s search engine A9.com, or indeed this perfect10 adult female glamour agency model type site until a few days ago. Now all the news sites are reporting this. Us lot are discussing it and some are even taking it all just a little bit too seriously. That’s great FREE exposure for both those parties. Maybe Amazon done it on purpose as part of some weird advertising campaign. A good way to get advertising on the news websites with great headline/leader line potential inherent in the subject. Yes, a clever ploy, regardless of the outcome. We have been successfully manipulated once again by the media! I wonder about the huge spike in visitors each site in question must have recieved as the story filtered down through the media streams and curious squid came swimming over to see what that strange light was