Could Googling become illegal?

**zbeast** · July 14th, 2005, 12:16 AM

Could it be possible that Canada will make Google or any other Internet search and archiving engines illegal?
Bill C-60, which amends the Copyright Act and received its first reading in the House of Commons on June 20, suggests it could be illegal for anyone to provide copyrighted information through "information-location tools," which includes search engines.
Ottawa copyright lawyer Howard Knopf, of the law firm of Macera & Jarzyna Moffat & Co., has been poring over the bill since it was tabled, and says he was startled to discover the potentially negative effect of Bill C-60's provisions on "information location tools."
The phrasing of the proposed law is difficult, Mr. Knopf says, because at first glance it seems to be a helpful provision in that it limits the liability of companies such as Google to no more than an injunction when they have not received actual notice of infringement. But then the language of the bill works on the assumption that the search engine itself is capable of infringing copyright by having archived copyright material on it.

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**origin** · July 14th, 2005, 12:25 AM

huh? i thought us law makers were bad but geesh!

l8

**method** · July 14th, 2005, 04:33 AM

I know... just type.. "rip filetype:torrent" ...into a google search.

**Auggie2k** · July 14th, 2005, 04:42 AM

Huh, thanks method. I thought msn had that type of search filtering. Works pretty well considering!

No googling won't become illegal. I have a question though, is google (as in to google or googling) now an official verb?

**Lofty** · July 14th, 2005, 06:50 AM

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=google

**Auggie2k** · July 14th, 2005, 06:56 AM

Thank you for clearing that up lofty.

**Slycktom** · July 14th, 2005, 07:05 AM

I hate news headlines like this. The author doesn’t really have anything credible to say, so uses a question mark in the headline to wiggle his way out.

Completely ridiculous.

**Auggie2k** · July 14th, 2005, 07:33 AM

Yeah I know, how could anybody think that they would get rid of something as useful as google!

**Vampmon** · July 14th, 2005, 11:59 AM

Originally Posted by Slycktom

I hate news headlines like this. The author doesn’t really have anything credible to say, so uses a question mark in the headline to wiggle his way out.

Completely ridiculous.

It makes it seem more interesting to the reader, i'd much rather click a link that had that on it, then something else.

**ivand67** · July 14th, 2005, 01:10 PM

Vampmon - you don't get the point.

Making headlines like that is just like what they're doing on cable news right now (you should watch The Daily Show, they rip CNN for that cheap shit all the time).

It's a cheap journalism trick and the title really doesn't serve the article justice.

**MP3Pr0** · July 17th, 2005, 02:10 PM

Outlawing Google? LOL!
Maybe go after those with illegal sites on Google, but not Google itself.
Copyright laws will go after anyone and anything though, so maybe it's not so far-fetched.

**jackofspades** · July 17th, 2005, 03:13 PM

Welcome to the new world... you can't get information that you need for a legitimate reason, but because of the freedom of information act it is reasonable for a criminal to collect the information about who called 911 when they committed a crime. how's that for screwed up?