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p2pnet.net News:- Expect to soon see the name Google appearing on MPAA sue ‘em documents.
How come?
Well, the world’s most popular search service recently launched a video service so Google users could watch movies.
They didn’t make it generally known the service was only good for videos hosted on Google servers. But not to worry. Jon Lech Johansen, the Bane of Hollywood, soon fixed that.
Meanwhile, “Consumers browsing the service, which was opened to the public just two days ago, have uncovered links to full versions of feature-length movies, TV shows and other content,” says CNET News. “As of Thursday morning, much of that content could be watched in its entirety on Google’s site.”
A “watchable copy of ‘The Matrix Revolutions’ was stamped with a June 9 upload time, and the ‘Family Guy’ cartoons were uploaded on June 7, according to the Web page," says the story.
Whoa! That’s copyright violation and Hollywood’s Keystone Kop unit, the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), has been using international police forces funded by public money to close down BitTorrent sites and carry out other police actions aimed at stopping exactly this kind of thing.
However, "While the ‘Matrix" link was still up Thursday morning, the ‘play’ buttons for screen captures of ‘The Simpsons’ episodes had been removed," CNET points out. And obviously, Google will soon take sterps to make sure only non-copyright-violating material will be available through its video thingy.
But - sorry, Google. That won’t help. Ask Alex Hanff.
The MPAA is known for being scrupulously fair. Thus, even though Google will hastily rectify this awful situation, the damage has been done, so expect to soon see the name Google appearing on MPAA sue ‘em documents.
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See:-
video service - Google scarfs up VLC, p2pnet, June 27, 2005
soon fixed that - DVD Jon un-mods Google mod, June 29, 2005
CNET News - Now playing on Google: ‘Matrix,’ ‘Family Guy’, June 30, 2005
MPAA - MPAA kops in another ‘raid’, p2pnet, June 25, 2005
won‘t help - Hanff to Schwartzenneger, p2pnet, July 3, 2005
July 3rd, 2005 at 5:03 pm
i think this is a clever publicity stunt between the mpaa and google. i doubt they’ll sue them. i think they’ll make a deal to make the google video service fee-based, the mpaa will provide the films and google will host them and naive suckers will actually pay them to rent the films in poor quality .asf format.
July 3rd, 2005 at 6:22 pm
uh, i don’t think p2pnet REALLY thinks the mpaa wil sue google
July 4th, 2005 at 4:11 pm
never happen, google + mpaa/riaa too powerfull for each other