Google sued for nicking nudes

Pron site retains briefs

[Macro]

"Apparently the images that Google displays are not from the site itself, but from rogue sites in foreign parts that have nicked the images and put them up. The company claims that Google also steers people to sites to password hacking sites that provide ways to gain illegal access ..."

news [theinquirer.net]

[Macro]

If this guys wins then almost everything Google does is illegal. Arrgghhh. What do you guys think?

[Sanenet]

No way these guys will win (based on my limited understanding of their argument).

Google doesn't benefit financially from it's SERPS, doesn't distribute PRON (it simply is a way of finding different sites) and it has a clearly defined DMCA policy. If the adult site could prove that third party sites were displaying their third party content, they could just fill in the complaints form at Google.

Another chap hoping for a quick "out of court" settlement IMHO.

[Iguana]

I think the whole thing is an attempt to get publicity for the porn site. Seems to be working

[Pricey]

A spokesman for Perfect 10 said Google had been targeted because it is "using the allure of naked women to draw more visitors to its site and generate more advertising revenue" and that was his company's mission.

So...

[Macro]

>>I think the whole thing is an attempt to get publicity for the porn site

Or, someone "trying it on", like BT did when they tried to enforce their hyperlink patent?

[Rugles]

Once again Google is expected to be the interent police. So Perfect 10 expects Google to surf there entire database and purge anything which may offend Perfect 10. Ya, that will work out.
Instead of laying blame where blame is due, just look for the nearest entity with deep pockets.

[Sanenet]

Just spotted the tagline for this thread: "Pron site retains briefs".

Not a very good porn site, then! Hur hur hur :)

[Macro]

>>Not a very good porn site, then
No, not at all. They've been naughty boys, they're taking Google to court :)

[Ledfish]

Having a little familiarity with the adult industry, I would have to say that Sasanet has hit the nail on the head. Perfect 10 has been involved a few suits like this.

[Robino]

Google should drop P'10 from their index.

[Macro]

But then they get sued for dropping sites as well, don't they?

[Philosopher]

Interesting...but that is one poorly written article!

[Macro]

It's a rubbish article... if you go as far as calling it an article.

Maybe Perfect 10's webmaster needs to spend some time here at Webmasterworld to learn some stuff to protect against people nicking his images... like using htaccess to block some directories, creating a robots.txt file etc he he

If someone's nicked your content what's wrong with filing a DMCA report with Google like some of us here do?

[bears5122]

Google doesn't benefit financially from it's SERPS

The only thing Google benefits from is the SERPs. No SERPs, no Google.

That argument would be like me hanging a giant nude image of a celebrity in the window of my store but saying that I'm not doing anything wrong because I'm not benifiting financially from it.

We are going to see more and more lawsuits coming forward each day. Search Engines cross the line on a lot of legal matters that haven't been touched yet.