I'm sure you can still Google "Pirate Bay" and find all the "goodies" those obnoxious Swedish Meatballs still offer (and they are still laughing all the way to the bank). It's just that the "Google Play Store" isn't offering a zillion APPS for the notorious swindlers.
One day, perhaps, some smart lawyer will have enough guile and sense to file a lawsuit that will bring GOOGLE to its knees.
Maybe there's ONE honest politician who'd put forth a law specifically aimed at putting some teeth into the fight against Internet piracy.
Right now it's the odd exception, rather than the rule, that has any Internet company doing ANYTHING moral or ethical. Mostly it's "we're just a venue" and "we have no idea if something's illegal or not" and "gosh, some Swedish meatball might have a licensing agreement to every movie ever made." Right, and a piece of shit in Hudding Hills or in Amsterdam or in Jiltzville has worked out a deal with Capitol, Reprise and Columbia to give away all their albums via one of Kim Dotcom's "share" lockers.
Pirate Bay is not even hiding. They're still yucking it up in their Swedish accents, and cake-walking down the street thumbing their noses (not easy to do, given that they're a bunch of drunks). Nobody can haul these assholes back into court? Maybe they'll haul Google into court, demanding that their "rights" are being violated. Free Speech and all that.
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