Google's antipiracy efforts are likely to come under scrutiny during a US congression

[CyberGenius]

Google will testify on "rogue" websites at a House hearing 6 April. Senator Patrick Leahy is spearheading antipiracy efforts in Congress.



Google has accepted an invitation to appear on 6 April before a US House subcommittee investigating websites accused of distributing pirated intellectual property, sources with knowledge of the witness list told ZDNet Australia sister site CNET.

Should Google testify as expected, it is believed to be one of the first occasions the search company has been questioned publicly about whether it plays any role in internet piracy.

Trade associations representing the film, music, software and video game industries say "rogue" sites violate copyright law and profit from their work without compensating owners. Many of them have accused Google for years of helping to fund copyright infringement by enabling site operators to post Google ads on their sites.

[CaT-]

they're not doing anything bad ._.

[Empire]

:/ the government just wants money, thats what all this "piracy" bullshit is about.

[Krypton1x]

google will win.

[Bandicoot]

yep multi billion dollar company will win

[Krypton1x]

google is just... too valuable. think about it, the government could easily use google to spy on people, as im sure they do.

[epicfailure/]

google is just... too valuable. think about it, the government could easily use google to spy on people, as im sure they do.

oh yeah cus they would use google wouldn't they?

I'm sureeeee they use facebook too.

[L3G3ND_KILL3R]

Google will always win

[CyberGenius]

google are allready selling private information to the goverment.

[Polo™]

This is something google just cant lose.

[coolsidharth]

means that piratebay and other good sites will be gone !!!!

[BACKUP_Disturbed]

google are allready selling private information to the goverment.

What billion dollar website isn't?

means that piratebay and other good sites will be gone !!!!

No it won't. TPB isn't located in America, they can't do shit.

And if they try to block it, or censor the internet in any way, they are going to have a few million people out throwing Molotov's.

[Saboteur]

Google to testify on piracy before House subcommittee | Media Maverick - CNET News

[Trapstar]

Google's going to run their shit -__-

[coolsidharth]

Only thing affected by this will be that you cant search torrent on GOOGLE