Google Removes, Reinstates Pirate Bay in Search Results
Search engine giant erroneously complied with a “cease and desist” letter sent by porn company Evasive Angels reporting copyright infringement by the Swedish BitTorrent tracker site.
It appears that late last week search engine giant Google briefly removed Swedish BitTorrent tracker site the Pirate Bay from its search results after receiving a “cease and desist” letter [...]
Google Currently Offering Free Web App to Access BitTorrent Trackers
There have been many who compare Google to ThePirateBay. The technical front may be more of a grey area that can be debated back and forth, but the line that defines the differences between Google and ThePirateBay may be a little more blurry on that technical side after one observant user spotted Google’s hosted [...]
Google – Stop Comparing Us to The Pirate Bay!
Many people who have been watching the debate surrounding the trial of The Pirate Bay have compared the website to Google. A few may have wondered what does Google think about being compared to a notorious BitTorrent tracker? Apparently, they didn’t take too kindly to the comparison and have gone on record in [...]
The Pirate Google Launches
The guilty verdict against The Pirate Bay has left many feeling irate. Many feel that you can pretty much do what you can do on The Pirate Bay on Google. Apparently, someone has developed a web page that does this more to prove a point than anything else.
Enter ThePirateGoogle, a website that Cory [...]
Google and Lessig Vs. The Wall Street Journal – The Network Neutrality Story
The network neutrality debate just got a little hotter recently over a story published on the Wall Street Journal.
A report from The Wall Street Journal has gotten numerous people talking recently. The article says that network neutrality is losing major supporters. One of the prominent figures that the WSJ says is losing support [...]
Legal troubles mount for YouTube
The widespread legal challenges that some experts have long predicted would dog Google’s YouTube appear to have arrived.
On Friday, the Football Association Premier League, England’s most prestigious soccer organization, filed suit in New York against the massively popular video-sharing site, accusing it of enabling users to violate copyright law. On the same day, in California, [...]
Google vs. Viacom: Who Will Win?
Google’s finally responded to the Viacom lawsuit against YouTube exactly as many predicted it would: by taking the common carrier defense provided in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Whether that defense will work is up to the courts. But Google is in a much better position to defend itself against copyright violation changes than peer-to-peer networks [...]
Verizon Wireless, YouTube ink video content agreement
A new agreement between Verizon Wireless and YouTube means that starting in December, Verizon V CAST subscribers will be able to watch videos uploaded to YouTube. The pact also enables easy uploading of videos shot on subscribers’ cell phones.
V CAST subscribers will be able to watch a limited selection of videos on YouTube, including ones [...]
“Cult” Landmark Forum sues GooTube, Internet Archive, etc.
The Landmark Forum (see background at http://www.rickross.com/groups/landmark.html), a group related to Scientology and EST, has hit Google, YouTube and the Internet Archive with a DMCA demand. They want to know who uploaded a 2004 news program expose on their activities which led to their leaving France.
This stunning video, which had a person attend a [...]
Google ad revenue ‘to surpass TV’
Google is about to overtake the UK’s main commercial TV channels in the race for advertising revenue, a study says.
It found that the US internet search giant’s 2006 UK revenues are expected to surpass Channel Four’s predicted £800m ($1.5bn) returns.
Google will then overtake ITV1 within 18 months, advertising buying companies Mindshare and Initiative told the [...]
