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Music Industry Mulls Suing Google Over “Pirate” Search Results

The recording industry considers filing a lawsuit against Google for allegedly abusing its dominant market position to distort the market for online music. Industry groups including IFPI and the RIAA want Google to degrade links to “pirate” websites in its search results. IFPI has obtained a “highly confidential and preliminary legal opinion” to see if they can force Google to step up its anti-piracy efforts though a lawsuit.

google bayIt’s no secret that the entertainment industries believe search engines are not delivering enough when it comes to protecting copyright works.

Two months ago the RIAA and IFPI accused Google of massively profiting from piracy and obstructing efforts of rightsholders to reduce the availability of illegal content.

Thus far, this row between Google and the entertainment industries has largely taken place behind closed doors, but a confidential document circulating among music industry executives shows that a lawsuit is also being considered.

“IFPI’s litigation team, in coordination with the RIAA, is continuing to negotiate with Google to obtain better anti-piracy cooperation in various areas,” the unpublished document obtained by Handelszeitung and partly shared with TorrentFreak explains. It is noted that Google provided recording labels with a special online search interface that allows for mass queries to be marked as infringing.

Using this interface, IFPI reported a massive 460,000 Google search results between August and December 2011. In addition, hundreds of Blogger sites were reported and shutdown upon request from the music industry group.

But IFPI claims this is still not enough, and is considering suing Google because the company fails to censor links to infringing content.

“Google continues to fail to prioritize legal music sites over illegal sites in search results, claiming that its algorithm for search results is based on the relevance of sites to consumers,” the document states.

“With a view to addressing this failure, IFPI obtained a highly confidential and preliminary legal opinion in July 2011 on the possibility of bringing a competition law complaint against Google for abuse of its dominant position, given the distortion of the market for legitimate online music that is likely to result from Google’s prioritizing of illegal sites.”

In other words, IFPI accuses Google of antitrust practices by failing to censor its search results in favor of the music industry. Strong words, and quite unprecedented if a lawsuit does indeed get filed.

A “Voluntary Code of Practice” suggested by the entertainment industries last month revealed that the IFPI and RIAA want all search engines to de-list popular file-sharing sites such as The Pirate Bay, and give higher ranking to ‘legal’ alternatives.

Today we learned that if Google doesn’t give in to these demands, an unprecedented lawsuit may follow.

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  • Anonymous

    i want to see that lawsuit
    Google has the money to fight back

    • Zarax

      But not the balls…

      • http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell

        Oh, I think they have the balls to fight back, to be blunt.

        If they didn’t, they would have caved on the book-scanning thing a long time ago.

        • Izkata

          Google has given in to completely invalid DMCA takedowns on the Android Market, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they did give in here.

          ( Specifically, the extremely popular Tricorder app was taken down due to a DMCA notice citing a design patent (not what DMCA is for) that expired over 8 years ago. )

        • Freaky

          That would be awesome if Google managed to paid some prosecutors and judges to put few of these corporate craps in prison.

          However since the best defense is offense the citizen must do the job themselves by poisoning with lead few of these entertainment executives. . .

          What????

          These old pieces of crap are going to die soon anyway since they are old and crappy thanks to Ms Cancer and Mr Heart disease . . . Right?

        • Guest

          Of course they’ll fight back, a ruling like this could have huge consequences for them. Suddenly everyone will be showing up demanding such and such be ranked lower in the search results because it hurts their business. It probably won’t be easy to defend against either, considering they’ve already decided to rank spam sites and content farms lower. Obviously they did that to improve search results for their users, but it might be hard to make that distinction in front of a judge.

        • Error406

          No they don’t. There are two parties Google has consistently caved for: the copyright industry and the telecom carriers.

        • Anonymous

          Google won’t give in unless the lawsuit is phrased correctly. The MPAA has to be very careful because if they lose, the might not get another chance to win. Plus, it’ll be expensive.

          Google will stand by its ‘keep the internet open and accessible’ type of thing, while also saying ‘illegal’ sites have been and are being delisted continuously. Whether ‘The Pirate Bay.org’ is illegal hasn’t been entirely decided by the law, so it will continue being up there as per relevance.

        • PlatinumC

          Google already lost when they started removing search results.
          You give them a finger, they take the whole hand kind of thing.

          Though the fight is not yet over, I’m just afraid that Google is not in the best waters here.

        • http://www.alexseo.se Alexander Edbom

          But they did! Atleast to some degree.

          As far as I know, Google already today censor a lot of search results related to some filesharing websites such as thepiratebay.

      • It’s a fit-up

        This has been on the cards for a long time so if Google aren’t fully prepared for such a lawsuit already then some very senior people need to be fired.

        • Xxx

          FROM my point of view COMPANIES like Hollywood Bollywood PORN industry Music recording and gaming are behind the NAME of MAFIAA

          thus they have quite a large amount of resource ++ SOME top LAWYERS at their disposal

          WHEN will the shit MAFIAA STOP all these?????????

      • http://profiles.google.com/stuart.anderson Stuart Anderson

        They don’t need to fight a lawsuit to win this one, they just need stall the MPAA/IFPI in court long enough to set up a better sales channel than the studios have. Google has the brains, funds and infrastructure to pull off a global sales and publishing network that would kick the studios revenues in the guts hard. That is the reason that the MPAA/IFPI will talk big but do nothing – the very last thing they want to have to do is compete fairly with other (more successful) business models.

        • Anonymous

          the problem with that is that they still need the content, and that is copyrighted by the MAFIAA, since the creative people have to sign it over to them to get funding.

          that is also the reason that Google has been slowly moving towards the MAFIAA, with censoring autocomplete for example, since they need the MAFIAA for their planned GoogleTV

          hopefully this will wake up Google that there is no doing business with those thugs.

      • Spencer greff

        Does anyone know they totally batshit insane lawsuit Google won with Oracle? It was hilarious. Basicly rewriting Java for an exclusive fit with android. 

    • 2 scales eh?

      Lol,accused of distorting the results,solution : distort the results to our own advantage,yeah right. Fuck you.

  • rei senador fuertes

    Black people vs Google.. who will win?

    • James

      Black.

    • http://www.facebook.com/ValhallaLegend Andrew Lee

      The Chinese

      • Asdsdf

        everyone looses

        • Fml

          Madonna wins.

    • Chronoss2008

      space aliens

  • IFPI Threatens Humanity

    The content industry is getting more and more greedy for every month of this year. They just cannot have enough and they’re getting it their way every single time.

    I hope big G gives them the middle finger. This is going to be bloody one day, as someone “psycho” enough will go into MPAA or RIAA’s HQ and start….Yes you know what I’m going to say. It won’t be called High School Shootings anymore….It’ll be called Content Industry Shootings.

    • http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell

      Agreed totally. Regular people are getting sickened by the greed of these companies and put out that even though things are ‘pirated’ on the internet, these jackoffs have usually GOTTEN THEIR PAY!

      How? Through cable TV and satellite subscriptions, which nearly ALL Americans have.

      By the fact that these things are available for NO COST online at the maker’s websites.

      The bottom line here is that most Hollywood produced stuff is DROSS…. it sucks!

    • Bebsaboo

      It’s not the content industry, it’s the distribution industry. There will still be a market for content but the current monopolistic distribution channels will cease to exist. Imagine if telephone exchanges had huge money and clout. This would be like them suing the pants off anyone who suggested that you could receive a telephone call straight to your house without it going through their exchange.

    • Chronoss2008

      that’s cause the truth is the bottom fell out and now even with current laws they cant keep gouging us, and the fact is sneaker net is winning
      THAT’S right its over they can give up or make the world into nazi germany ( WONT HAPPEN )

  • Randomness

    lmao i find that funny. when they could use google to find and sue sites for profiting on copyrighted stuff. its not google’s fault for making a good search engine

    • Jane

      And anyway if Google submits to their request more people will use another search engine that is still “free”.

  • John Doe

    Perhaps it is about time that everyone sued the media industry, for failing to copyprotect their products properly in the first place. Those who make the products are those with the responsibility – NOT the internet, not the world, and certainly not the search-engines..

    • Anonymous

      “copyprotection” does not work, it just pisses off the people that actually paid for it.

      but you are right, they have to adapt, itunes, netflix, steam etc. show that people are willing to pay for stuff even if it is available for free; piracy is a service issue

      • Lordhoff31

        Completely agreed, you CAn compete with free. Just make it better!!!

    • Dmitri Bovski

      Na but it may be a good idea if everyone sued them for government interference or everyone started reporting them to the police for bribery and corruption

  • DutchGuest

    I’m really starting to hope that someday soon people will start firebombing the offices of these big Mafia cartels, or that someone pulls a McVey on their headquarters.
    Considering that these scumbags are paying off governments so they will put the rights of these scummy protection racket white collar criminals ahead of the rights of the individual, I feel that these big cartels (and the governments) deserve to be tried for treason, and that they should be judged (and if found guilty), sentenced by the same insane standards they use on ‘pirates’.

    Or just revert to the good ‘ole death penalty, because let’s face it, there’s no better deterrent to ‘lawfull’ profiteering than that.

    • fambeu

      “Firebombing” or any other kinda of physical attack would do nothing for the good of the cause it would only show that they are right and its nothing but “hard” criminals doing all the “stealing”. The only thing that can really be done(This is a hard thing to accept) we just have to use the legal system as broken as it is we(those who really see what is going on with all this not just hear bout it from time to time on the news) are still a small percent of the us and world common community but if we use the legal system and other non physical was of fighting all this it brings it out into the open and everyone not just the tech or internet community will have no choice but to see what corruption is going on and the human rights that are being violated

      This is a lot like the civil rights that the blacks fought for in the us they would just not hit back and after long enough people began to see that the things they were taught all there life were wrong and they had no choice but to see the truth about the whole situation, but many were killed and put in jails for the fight

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PXX4S66KOUIGIKTTIMV3CBGO7Y Colin

        Fambeu,
        You are right that to hold the moral high ground we must use legal means. You are also right that Joe Public in general is not really aware of the issues of corruption, greed, loss of freedoms etc.

        That said, I (and MANY others) have little faith in the law in most Western countries. So we become very angry at the things being done to us in order that incredibly rich people can go out and buy a 2nd or 3rd exec jet for Caribbean weekend trips.

        There will come a point where either 1, the politicians become frightened of the voters and democracy is to some extent restored, or 2, the weight of injustice becomes so great that ordinary folk resort to direct action, law and order breaks down. Option 2 would be VERY nasty, but many ordinary people would feel that justice was being done, even if there was little ‘official’ law left.

        Do I advocate fire bombings, kidnap and murder? No! But I would understand why if others were to resort to such actions.

      • Dmitri Bovski

        The problem with this argument is the MAFIAA control the corrupt press.

        • Chronoss2008

          then get your own press going….and support it with donations…soon you will have a series a media all over the world and if done quick fast and underground by time it surfaces its far too late that they can stop it

    • Xxx

      FROM my point of view COMPANIES like Hollywood Bollywood PORN industry Music recording and gaming are behind the NAME of MAFIAA

      thus they have quite a large amount of resource at their disposal

      WHEN will the shit MAFIAA STOP all these

    • Freaky

      We burned the Hollywood studio once and we can do this again.

  • Random Guy
    • Beefo

      heh
      +1

  • Anonymous

    Maybe Google should start blocking the RIAA webtraffic and begin to remove all their links eh?

    • Unique Newyork

      second that! :)

    • Anonymous

      And have the RIAA demand that Google be impartial and not block websites?
      Here’s the POT, KETTLE, BLACK thing again!

  • Johnsmith

    Come-on Google, kick some RIAA asses

  • The Aussie

    So a MONOPOLY wants to sue google with ANTITRUST to aid the MONOPOLY!?

    That has to be a joke right?

    Talk about the pot calling the kettle black

    • The Aussie

      Then the pot paints the kettle back

  • Hws

    Extortionists will never stop asking for more money till people collaborate, set limits and drive them out. These are mob rules.

  • http://twitter.com/icanhazsake Ninja

    ROFLMAO have they lost their mind? Google has shown they can get aggressive if the status quo isn’t maintained (see Motorola). And Google pockets are way deeper than MAFIAA’s along with influence. People don’t hate Google like they hate the MAFIAA.

    It’s not about MAFIAA vs Google. It’s MAFIAA vs the world. The MAFIAA are poison that is killing our freedom of speech and undermining our rights. The world would be better off without them.

    I do hope that if MAFIAA really sues Google will get nuclear and start questioning the very laws that those greedy bastards enacted over the last 30 years.

    http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120215/04241517766/how-much-is-enough-weve-passed-15-anti-piracy-laws-last-30-years.shtml

    • Xxx

      FROM my point of view COMPANIES like Hollywood Bollywood PORN industry Music recording and gaming are behind the NAME of MAFIAA

      thus they have quite a large amount of resource at their disposal

      WHEN will the shit MAFIAA STOP all these

      • http://twitter.com/icanhazsake Ninja

        Google is not alone either. There are tons of tech companies that would be severely harmed if MAFIAA gets everything they want. You know, there are other search engines out there… The world is not Google.

  • As

    lol that what i wanted to see , will google now fuck their algorithm and die to allow riaa and mpaa get more cash or it will fight back ,
    Google is was it is now due to strong algorithm , off course 99.9% of internet search are for copyrighted material . now google either fight or die , time for other search engine to build up

  • Anonymous

    If Google falls to this, then you can kiss freedom on the Internet GOODBYE.

    I just want to say to all those lnu fans out there, all those MU, FS and FSC supporters , we gotta hold on. We need to start protecting the people who have tried to give us free stuff, we need to fight for this fundamental right.

    • IFPI Threatens Humanity

      No one really held their heads up giving a sh*t about Duckload when they went down and the guys went behind bars for a few years.

      I can understand where FS and FSC is positioned at.

      Next in target are uploaded.to and depositfiles. They can take all the heat in the cyberlocker world.

  • ThisManIsMadHeUsesOpenSource !

    Time to move to another search engine ?

    http://duckduckgo.com/about.html

    • James

      or Yippy

    • Dingo

      I was thinking more along the lines of … http://yacy.net

      • Yey

        Like bittorrent people can match IP to what you do in p2p… right?

        duckduckgo … you just have to depend on that company to keep your details a secret, since they dont track your details… then you have nothing to worry about… right? :S

    • Guest
  • Unique Newyork

    Tongue Twister for you… say this under 2 seconds:

    “respect existence or expect resistance”

  • TinFoilHatter

    RIAA sue Google “..for abuse of its dominant position” ??

    POT
    KETTLE
    BLACK

    Fucking hypocrites!

  • François-Xavier Thomas

    I’d be willing to pay for music/movies if the quality and “easy-to-use-ness” was the same on legal websites. Unfortunately, it is not. I’m not counting going to the cinema (I do it quite often) or buying books for my Kindle (Amazon did a great job with it).

  • As

    only US citizen can put an end to all those BS , sopa , acta pipa , site closed down ……

    If they will remain eating hamburger and get more fat , the internet will end.

    • Xxx

      the whole WORLD should stand up

      1. CHANGE our internet connection to a dial up — cost very CHEAP
      2. DONT buy the shit MOVIE + MUSIC they produce

      THIS will lead to a massive close down of the movie industry + comunication

      That will be nice to see

      • Anoxius

        When did ISPs deserve to be punished? :o

        The more or less nice ones, that is.

  • Anonymous

    they dont have balls to go against google openly.. because google might just buy them out and use RIAA as help center or an IT outlet.. :D

    • Pirateus

      dude google is rich but it’s not mafiaa rich… they both have big influence, power and money but it’s not like google can buy them or anything.
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_Corporation
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google
      News corporation is the company that owns 20th century fox (one of the SIX big studios) has a revenue a little smaller than google. And that’s ONE of the SIX big studios. You can imagine the MAFIAA’s total money ;)

      • Anonymous

        haha.. I know mate.. I was joking… kinda rather pissed seeing RIAA in every other news these days :P

      • Chronoss2008

        and all google has to do is pay for a candidate both democratic and republican for every congress seat available

        ya isn’t that how the us system works then when google has all the power …well you get the hint

  • http://tiny.cc/ANoiXioNA-personal-info ANoiXioNA

    IF EVER there was a time to googleb0mb “”riaa”" …. it’s now

  • Guest

    .
    hjg

  • Guest

    reply aint workin

    • Yoba

      I read that as “big dick”
      almost like magic put on me :)

      • Anonymous

        Put some of that magic dick on me, too.

    • Anonymous

      DERP!

  • Zan

    if riaa win, whats next?

    demanding independent artists be delisted as their “stealing” sales from industry artists?

  • FREE HUMAN

    PEOPLE WAKE UP AND MAKE MASS BOYCOTT !

    EVENTUALY IF ACTA PASS STOP USEING CENSORED INTERNET , CANCEL NET AGREEMENT WITH YOUR ISP AND LET THEM ALONE – IN RESULT THEY WILL FAIL , INTERNET WILL FAIL , THIER CONTROL AND POWER WILL FAIL …

    LOL IS SO EASY

    THINK ABOUT …AT BEGINNING WORLD DONT HAVE INTERNET , COPYRIGHTS , TV , MEDIA CORPORATIONS AND OTHER SHITS ETC AND THEN PEOPLE DONT DIE BECOUSE OF THAT , AT BEGINNING PEOPLE HAVE FREEDOM , LESS MANIPULATION LESS CONTROL !

    WITHOUT MEDIA , TV ETC A HUMAN REMAIN A HUMAN BEING,
    WHITOUT FREEDOM HUMAN IS NOT HUMAN IS JUST A SLAVE !

    STOP BUYING ALL MEDIA CORPORATIONS PRODUCTS (MOVIES , MUSIC , TV SHOWS ETC ) WE CAN HIT THEM WITH THEIR WEAPONS
    - MONEY …OUR MONEY !

    IF WE STOP BUYING THEIR SHITS THEY WILL FAIL !

    THEIR POWER IS BASED ON OUR MONEY !
    THEIR POWER IS IN OUR POCKET BUT THEY MANIPULATE AND FOOLISH US TO FOGET ABOUT THAT

    WITHOUT OUR MONEY THEY WILL LOOSE POWER ,CONTROL , MANIPULATIONS ,LOBBY ETC

    WITHOUT OUR MONEY THEY WILL LOOSE WAR AGAINST US , THEIR LAWS , COPYRIGHTS , ACTA ETC WILL BE JUST A PIECE OF TOILET PAPER AND ALL THESE FAT MONKEY WILL GET TOTTALY FAIL

    SO REMEMBER BE SMART AND BOYCOTT , IS NOT SO HARD

    AFTER ONE YEAR YOU WILL LAUGHING OUT LOUD WHEN SEE RESULT

    • babe gargar

      I’ll switch back to the $3/mth dial-up plan. Check e-mail, surf, chat. Life goes on the way we used to be like the 90s

      • http://www.facebook.com/ValhallaLegend Andrew Lee

        Heh I don’t think I could ever go back to that 2.6kbs download with 275-350ms ping.. Not after getting 5-7mbs on a decent torrent and at least 700-800kbs from crappy sites :/ When I was 16 I downloaded warcraft 3 via irc and it took me almost 3 weeks rofl. I did not like it after I had it so I went back to diablo 2 and subspace.

    • DutchGuest

      Capslock : cruise control for awesome, AMIRIGHT !?!?
      :-D

    • Meccanoist2007

      More countries are involved in this than just America ! Most Americans seem to think the world revolves around them…….

      Heads up Yanks ! This is a global issue, boycotts etc are not going to have any effect. A change in P2P strategy may.

    • somebody

      ,,THEIR POWER IS IN OUR POCKET BUT THEY MANIPULATE AND FOOLISH US TO FOGET ABOUT THAT ”

      I like that

    • Xxx

      MAN this is a very GOOD reflection

      I have always TOLD that if they IFPI and the RIAA ACTA and the other blood suckers are able to close the DOWNLOADING it will be better to watch the movies on TV

      PLUS revert to a cheap internet connection $5/month that will be great

      MOREOVER DON’T buy the SHIT movies and Music they produce

      the Communication industry as well as the MOVIE industry will CRUMBLE ;-))))

      THAT will be GREAT to see

    • Anonymous

      I am never allowing the MAFIAA a way into my wallet.These fuckers will never see a dime out of me for the rest of my life.
      They should all die now !!!
      Google should just remove any MAFIAA links to any MAFIAA Company, Artists, or supporter.
      Fuck em.

  • Guest

    So the RIAA wants free SEO? If they want to boost their rankings, hire a SEO company and pay for it, just like all other private businesses.

    • OMGWTFBBQ

      Plus, if Google no longer gives results people are looking for. They leave. And i mean are they stupid? Just google “torrent sites” and search on them. Or other search engines.

  • W00tz and Hootz

    Google won’t fall. It practically IS the internet. What we do if it did? Ask Jeeves? Ask my ass.

    • Guest

      Google contributed a lot but IT IS NOT THE INTERNET.

      • W00tz and Hootz

        do you know what the word practically means?

        • Guest

          Yes, and Google pratically is not the Internet. Do you know what Internet really means?

    • Chronoss2008

      whats google?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PFCI5VRUCYT6AVBT3P6ILV3COI Ophelia Millais

    The day Google starts manipulating search results to deprioritize whatever websites the one particular industry finds objectionable is the day Google loses its safe harbor status and becomes liable for the content of every site it links to. Every other search engine would have to follow suit. They’re never going to let that happen. It really would be the end of the Internet as we know it. I’m skeptical that this will get any traction.

    • Xxx

      MAN that could be the day the end on GOOGLE dominace over the SEARCH Engine

      PEOPLE will simply move to newer one which DONT filter

      HOPE Google fight BACK

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PFCI5VRUCYT6AVBT3P6ILV3COI Ophelia Millais

        People would move to unfiltered search engines, yes, but their options would be limited. If Google loses and has to start filtering, then any other US-based search engine could also be held liable for the sites they link to, and with the Google case as precedent, they’d likely lose in court if they were to not filter. So they’re all just going to start filtering as well. Foreign search engines that refuse to filter would be branded “notorious markets”/”rogue sites” by the USTR and the WTO, and would probably be blocked or used as leverage to postpone trade agreements until their host countries took those sites out of operation.

        Like I said, though, I doubt the music industry will really go through with it.

        • Chronoss2008

          NO like private torrent sites you’d then get private search sites….and public would just be slow filters crap….prolly all filled with bullcrap religious false shit

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Don-Dilly/1624894683 Don Dilly

    The main reason Google fights against censorship is that as soon as its reputation relies on having a complete and uncensored feed. So far any censorship has been limited to specific files or pages in specific locations.

    Going beyond that affects the intrety of the results by casting doubt on the existence of false positives which is something initself that will have a negative impact on MAFIAA members and legacy media.

  • maxwell elle

    Google will eventually surrender but we will always find a way to get what we want

    • Xxx

      MAN but according to the EU court ruling GOOGLE may no more surrender

      OR simply google should ask the ass holes IFPI and the RIAA to implement such a system if they really want to filer out Pirated sites

  • Reader

    Man, I can’t wait for every private company to be able to get #1 prioritised search results for their little business without paying for the advertising privileges!

    I may open up a cake shop and then harass Google to put me in #1 for cake related searches, too !

    • Xxx

      MAN should pay OR else how google will make money

      DO you think the users will pay OR will simply shift to other search engine

      • Retard Corrector

        What the hell kind of moron question is that?? Money is the whole reason these issues exist. Nobody wants to pay, you twit.

  • Xxx

    SIMPLE Google MUST tell IFPI and the RIAA to implement such a system and give they they will fit it with their SEARCH engine PROVIDED it does not affect the SEARCHING speed.

    if they are stressful then good ELSE google SHOULD not SPEND its manforce in such shit

    ++++++ the latest news on torrentFreak GOOGLE should not be force to filter all results — human rights

    hope Google sue IFPI and the RIAA for forcing him to implement stuff illegally

    • djnforce9

      Yes, gotta love how the entertainment industry expects OTHERS to waste THEIR resources on protecting some ancient business model by implementing a method that won’t even be effective in the first place. That’s always how it is since they are too cheap to front the bill. Probably because it will mean one less luxury car for their CEOs’.

  • Xxx

    well IFPI and the RIAA its simple if YOU want your result to be first PAY google more or MAKE more people visit YOUR ugly sites — ONLY sells

    WHO shit will visit it — yourSelves

    why IFPI and the RIAA are sucking so much the MUSIC industry is making MORE money NOW than in the PAST!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    3 problems i see straight away. correct me if i am wrong:

    1) who is deciding that a site is illegal?
    2) how many of the sites already been forced to shut, on accusation only remember, were legal, but couldn’t afford to fight against the might of the entertainment industries?
    3) why should Google give any of the entertainment industries websites a free upgrade in the search results without getting anything for doing so?

    • Danny

      4) Why should Google fuck over their customers for some outdated monopoly?

  • Xxx

    GOOGLE should never accept to put the result of these shit on the first rank – first page??

    MUST FORCE them to pay the fee?? — LOADS of money to make out there ;-)))

    if they dont agree then just too bad — LET piracy DO its job

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  • f**k yeah

    GOOGLE will fuck IFPI bitches in the greedy arse!!!!

  • Wer

    Nothing but bitches who want to steal other people’s work whihning here i see….

    • Anonymous

      copying is not stealing

      also, censorship is bad, mkay, don’t do censorship.

    • Chronoss2008

      lazy prick actor alert

  • Google

    I just Googled “indiana jones and the temple of doom”
    http://www.google.com/#hl=en&gs_nf=1&cp=36&gs_id=2&xhr=t&q=indiana+jones+and+the+temple+of+doom&pf=p&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&pbx=1&oq=indiana+jones+and+the+temple+of+doom&aq=0&aqi=g4&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=91b535230a0896c1&biw=1120&bih=594

    All top results were “non-pirate”
    Amazon is selling DVD for $12.99
    LEGO version on YouTube was cool.
    Netflix has it.

    Had to dig many pages deep to start finding any torrent links.

    adding tpd to the search string did help weed out the rif-raf however
    http://www.google.com/#hl=en&gs_nf=1&cp=40&gs_id=2&xhr=t&q=indiana+jones+and+the+temple+of+doom+tpb&pf=p&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&pbx=1&oq=indiana+jones+and+the+temple+of+doom+tpb&aq=0&aqi=g1&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=91b535230a0896c1&biw=1120&bih=594

    • Anon

      “adding tpd to the search string did help weed out the rif-raf however”

      ROFLMAO

    • Yey

      and if they want to find torrents… they add ‘torrents’ into the search term. People who do this intend to see sites like TPB and do not intend to spend any money regardless of amazon link being made a priority in the results.

      Also, Google has censored the word “torrent” in the search suggestions so they can’t be accused of encouraging people to use the site for illegal downloads. :-

      • Google

        Not really correct …

        Open a new browser window.
        Open new Google page.
        Slowly type in “Lady Gaga torrent “.

        The auto complete does act weird with “torrent” but
        the auto suggest still works.
        Be sure to type a space after “torrent”.

        Never really thought about it much but it’s
        kinda fun to see Google in action when you slowly
        type the search string.

        Personally, I still prefer tpb at the end.
        tpb does auto complete.

        Either way you get there I guess.

  • Pitney Gooston

    I would LOVE to see this.

    Go ahead & waken the sleeping giant.

    Go ahead and kick the sleeping dog.

    You greedy, Mercedes-SL600-driving, with-$100-bill-cigar-lighting, balding 55 year old dinosaurs. Just fucking try it. You’ll get bitch-slapped into oblivion.

  • Mc

    One question pops out at me. If they want to see legal sites at the top of results, why dont they pay for ad placements like everybody else? Record industry entitlement complex knows no bounds, and Google better wise up and stop playing this game like Neville Chamberlain before its too late, because the record industry will never stop until Googles business is completely stunted and he internet is totalitarian.

  • http://fightcopyrighttrolls.com S.J. Doe

    “Google continues to fail to prioritize legal music sites over illegal sites in search results, claiming that its algorithm for search results is based on the relevance of sites to consumers,” the document states.”

    Isn’t it the answer? Just make your “authorized sources” damn relevant to consumers! Jeez…

  • http://www.knosysnetworks.com/ Knosys Networks

    Let’s sue everyone instead of re-investing in our business!! That won’t make your products stale at all!!

  • Anon

    This will never happen for two reasons

    1) Google is too big for the MAFIAA to take on and could easily match the bribes they throw to the politicians.

    2) Once they lose that’s essentially the end of them.

  • Zre

    google = shit too

  • DRuNKeN MaSTeR

    Because tipping the search results in favor of the copywrong industry would not be “abusing power”…

  • http://twitter.com/Mathew30 Mathew Lisett

    i may have thid wrong “abusing its dominant market position to distort the market for online music.” i take it they completely missed the fact that google isnt dominate in any sense related to msuic , and its itunes that are. but surely if google is dominate in the market place of advertising, surely thats good for business for the companies doing the music. or is this just anoyign bitch moan from those that want to be loaded and wanna blame others

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  • Zuckerberg

    Who Music Theft Hurts
    http://www.riaa.com/physicalpiracy.php?content_selector=piracy_details_online

    “One credible study by the Institute for Policy Innovation pegs the ANNUAL harm at $12.5 billion dollars in losses to the U.S. economy as well as more than 70,000 lost jobs and $2 billion in lost wages to American workers.”

    Hmmm? 70,000 jobs @ $2 billion in wages = $28,500 annual salary (about $14.25 an hour). Better than working at McDonalds’s I guess.

    I’m a Successful Artist. And Here’s Why Things Have Never Been Worse…
    http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2012/120214cracker

    For sure many artists have it tough.
    Not quite sure whom they are blaming however.

    Here’s a thought for a new model.
    A “Tribler-pyramid-scheme-bitcoin-torrent” model.

    1) New Artist (IP owner) “publishes” $1.00 song torrent.
    2) Each new peer/seed gains bitcoin (hash tweaking?).
    3) Distribution grows like classic pyramid-scheme.
    4) Bitcoin flows up peer/seed pyramid hash.
    5) Pyramid collapses when no one wants song anymore.

    No real losers (except folks at bottom of pyramid).
    They paid $1 bitcoin for a song nobody wants to leech from anymore.

    Calling all “Zuckerbergs”
    Calling all “Zuckerbergs”

    • Bitcoin

      This was fun to watch.
      Plus the girls were cute.

      magnet:?xt=urn:btih:C11382A641A8AACBF43
      EEF8E9ECF0DC73715A435&dn=The.Good.Wife.
      S03E13.HDTV.XviD-LOL.%5bVTV%5d.avi&tr=u
      dp%3a//tracker.openbittorrent.com%3a80

    • thats a dumb idea

      For the hundred millionth time, nobody wants to pay at any point for any reason. Get off your high horse.

    • Tesla

      I read the article at http://www.digitalmusicnews.co… and some of the comments.
      I for one have no respect or use for itunes or amazon , I consider both to be ripping off customers, just as bad as the big media corps.
      Apple is greedy in every aspect I can think of and none of the afore mentioned
      business’ show any respect for customers or artists. We give them free advertising, they in turn call us names and sue us….nice.
      We may never know if Megaupload could have been a better alternative.
      I for one believe that it could have at least been a tremendous leap forward.
      In regards to some of the comments at the Digital Music News site..
      I for one do like to have an artists complete album, but I have to say there are numerous albums I refuse to buy due to having maybe only 1 good song on it, or just 1 new song and the rest being old productions. I consider that to be a scam and it pisses me off. So with no way of buying that 1 song, I will copy it from someone.Not fair for you, but not fair to try to overcharge for 1 new song either.

      The sharing of music is free advertising, and if it is any good, those who like it and are willing to pay far outnumber those who don’t want to pay at all.
      The main beef in all this is the corporations who seem to think the old marketing methods should still work but thieves are ruining it…Not even close to the truth.
      Due to the digital age, music should be cheaper and easier to get.
      You want to get paid for an album that 98% sucks…not by me. Release singles, albums are a marketing gimmick in my opinion. There are always exceptions like an album that is only 1 or 2 songs(Jethro Tull).
      More relevant, call it what you want but release what you create as individual recordings, don’t pre-package. It’s a rare artist that makes 100% great music and everyone has different tastes.
      Set your price if you want and/or allow for donations.
      Don’t make the pricing scheme the same as for CD, DVD, Tape..etc
      It no longer costs tons of cash to make a medium that we really don’t want or even use anymore.
      I put my music on usb devices or other portable devices and make my play lists from the music on my computer which is on several portable hard drives..
      The list goes on, history at this web site will show you the methods people use.
      If I buy a tape, record, CD, DVD, Blueray..etc, the very first thing I do is Rip it so I can play it when and where and how I like and there is no way to stop us from doing that as that is the now and the future.
      It was once said about Radio and TV, “The message is the medium, the medium is the message”. This is even more true now than ever before, but put Internet in there instead, as it is the new medium, anything else is outdated and near obsolete. The format is ones and zeros and the choice of how we use those ones and zeros is ours now, not the media corps.
      arg! enough for now..Arg!! Aye matey!

  • anominous

    aah WTF some people just can fucking stop hating goddammit stupid people you got much money WTF do you want more ruin everything i guess because your doing that right fucking now!!!

  • Anonymous

    google is the #1 and most powerful website on the net
    nothing will happen to google <3

  • Anonymous

    Google should be well aware of the slippery slope of giving into the censorship demands of the copyright cartels. No matter what you give them they will always be wanting more.

    So Google gave them an unlimited censorship tool that was abused 460,000 times and now they only want to sue Google’s ass anyway. It seems Google has forgot that them having a censored service means people will switch to using other search engines.

    They should have only one response to them always. In any contact say no more than F**K OFF AND DIE. It always ends in Court anyway and saves any unnecessary censorship.

  • Nafeasonto

    I never really comment, but at this point this is INSANE. I really hope someone starts fighting back, or the entire industry of downloading is FUCKED.

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  • goo

    Why don’t we just let the music industry move into our homes so they can monitor our Internet usage in real time and in person? That way we can avoid all these silly lawsuits.

    • goo

      By the way, to the RIAA or MPAA, I will not be doing your laundry or cooking for you. But you are free to watch me download the latest movies and music, and I don’t use google. :)

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  • Anti-Big Brother / Anon legion

    Come on seriously they keep trying after they can’t pass the Sopa law so you they decided we can just shut down the internet without passing that law by attacking Google Inc. Mafia is so greedy i don’t see why anyone would ever want to watch their productions of movies or even listen to their recordings. The world would be such a better place if they where taken out of busniess an new people who are not afraid for change and allow sharing of content over the internet took their place.

    Its time to stand up for your Rights! Stop these Anti-p2p companies creating business revenue by suing Innocent people

  • Angel Ortega

    “Google continues to fail to prioritize legal music sites over illegal sites in search results, claiming that its algorithm for search results is based on the relevance of sites to consumers”

    So, basically a computer is telling you that “your customers” do not prefer you and some how this is google’s problem?

    Last time I checked if a customer does not prefer your service is because YOUR SERVICE SUCKS, TAKE THE HINT!

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  • Anonymous

    lol, those music idiots are really starting to get annoying dude.
    anon-dot.tk

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  • William

    Simply put, they want to rip apart Google’s PageRank algorithm, which by the way is in itself intellectual property under US law. See http://www.google.com/patents?vid=6285999

    • Fantastic

      Pfft its not their IP so why should they care. Remember its all about “protecting theirs” and oppressing others and then stealing the rest.

  • Ettyty

    The pirate bay is legal wherever it is hosted, so what do they mean by legal?

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  • http://twitter.com/meekcritic Meek Critic

    “It is noted that Google provided recording labels with a special online search interface that allows for mass queries to be marked as infringing.”

    This was Google’s big mistake. Once they gave these parasites control over search queries it emboldened the RIAA to believe they could then convince Google to censor Websites and search queries completely.

    I don’t think they would be able to successfully sue Google. Only a court order could force Google to censor Websites or search queries and this antitrust angle doesn’t hold much weight since Google is not profiting from these so called “illegal services” that are competing with the legal ones.

    Google should view this as an insult and revoke this special online search interface since the RIAA is not dealing with them in good faith.

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  • Anonymous

    Google is a search engine. They simply display what is on the internet and they aren’t be responsible for it, nor should they be forced to filter every little thing to RIAA doesn’t like. Under the same logic, we should ban cars because they allow robbers to get to a bank.

    I think the real reason the RIAA hates Google even more now is because of the new Google music service because it allows people to release their music without going through a record label. The record companies just want to keep making money off their obsolete, unnecessary business so they can continue ripping off real artists.

    • Fantastic

      Bingo, its why they are hammering the net hard right now as its the future and their outdated bloated industry is on the way out. Gotta keep fighting and we’ll live in a world where soon they will be nothing but a historical footnote.

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  • Guy Fawkes

    The people support Google, and have legitimate animosity to the criminals at the RIAA, Fight this and we will fight with you. If the RIAA want priority, they can innovate a media delivery system that works better (at the very least, AS WELL AS) torrenting, and make it affordable for the layman. (Think Netflix + Steam + iTunes with a wider selection, i.e. any Programs/Movies(including those still in theaters)/TV Shows/Music as much as you want with a monthly fee).

    Until they innovate a better product, the free market will support Piracy, google giving priority to one or the other will have ZERO impact on this dichotomy.

    -Guy Fawkes

  • Desudesu

    Go ahead and sue Google. That just means more opportunity for MAFIAA to lose an this to go before the SCOTUS.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003192277539 Marshall Mathews

    The reason google gave in the android market thingie is because its only tiny part of their business.
    They would most likely fight back because this is talking about googles big thing which is searching.

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  • http://www.n5fonline.com/n5fonline TerenceN5F

    The GREEDY Record Companies. They would not have sued if they are unable to profit from the lawsuit. I say that they are the Gold-Digging Privateers, aka Pirates, themselves.

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  • Dbzarea2000

    Well cell market; google is part of it , what makes them cash so yea they will cave. But if they wana play hard ball google could just remove the ones in the lawsuit but list them and ruin them alltogether. Personally I would like google to ruin the ones stadting crap.

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  • Tonyj

    Freggin RIAA is going to run their clients businesses into the ground.

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  • Guest

    LMAO@ the thepiratebay logo colored in google colors.

  • Anonymous

    Absolutely desgusting. Why do these media corporations always think they can bully everyone into submission?

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  • Guest

    My two cents on the issue is that the music industry is a bunch of fatcats that can not change their business plan to fit the age. Instead they want the age to fit in to their obsolete business plan. People will pay for a good service, just look at spotify. Buying music in a digital is becoming more and more popular, since you get what you pay for and not a overpriced CD with one song you like, and the rest is garbage.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QB56JW34HEHJ32NZ74HGEIH7NU jasonh

    what’s messed up is google gives them the tools to remove these websites from their search engine. the music and movie industry are too lazy and stupid to use them

  • http://www.alexseo.se Alexander Edbom

    “fail to prioritize legal music sites over illegal sites in search results”

    I see what they did there :D A new monopoly but now on music related search results. And if you, as an artist, don’t support RIIA, you are screwed. Bye indie artists and bands..

  • Vypar

    IFPI & RIAA are really starting to lose plot, now they want to control search engine results… How can such organizations exhibit so much control in the western world, rather than protecting consumers, artists and the provision of reasonable digital music options they want to censor the Internet. It doesn’t matter what you do there are always a miriad of options, so if you sensor Google that’s ok, it will only lead to the demise of Google as the search engine of choice. Hope Google puts a good fight and they succumb to the fascist pigs! Here’s to keeping the Internet free and keep the file sharing culture alive… Kopinism….!

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  • baluba

    Yeah…right..Google has the money,Google got ball…but why when i search for pirate bay they don’t suggest it??? t h e p i r a t e b a y..try it if you don’t belive!!!

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  • Jake D.

    Ah the United-States and their senseless legal system…

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  • Anonymous

    Ya know what? That’s enough! We’re not gonna take it! Kill the music industry, IFPI, whatever, just kill it now! Epicness like the 70′s/80′s haven’t showed up for mode than 2 decades, you know why? Because they can’t grow! It’s all pre-made, no artist lives long anymore, their career is all pre-made and thanks to shi* like that all we have now is crappy pop music! PS: For decades! And that’s how it’s going to be if the music industry doesn’t learn and grow! They don’t even know how to use google to improve sales!

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