Google in court for copying porno

Published: Wednesday 22 February 2006
A federal judge has ruled that portions of Google's popular image search feature, which displays small thumbnail versions of images found on other websites, are likely to violate US copyright law.
US District Judge A Howard Matz ruled on Friday that Perfect 10, an adult-oriented website featuring "beautiful natural women" in the nude, has shown that Google image search probably infringes copyright law "by creating and displaying thumbnail copies of its photographs".

http://management.silicon.com/government/0,39024677,39156657,00.htm

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I would of thought that google giving porno links with just about any search was a good thing for the hue heffs of this world??? Perhaps they really do have there morals and stick to the law!

Well it was only a matter of time before Google would get sued for something...

yea all the great ones did

Originally posted by Sir Whirlysplat
Published: Wednesday 22 February 2006
A federal judge has ruled that portions of Google's popular image search feature, which displays small thumbnail versions of images found on other websites, are likely to violate US copyright law.
US District Judge A Howard Matz ruled on Friday that Perfect 10, an adult-oriented website featuring "beautiful natural women" in the nude, has shown that Google image search probably infringes copyright law "by creating and displaying thumbnail copies of its photographs".

http://management.silicon.com/government/0,39024677,39156657,00.htm

See also todays top stories!

You know, I've tried to look up porn with google image, and it almost always tells me that it didn't find anything that matches my search criteria. I've even turned off all the filters and safety features. That being said, the few times it has worked, all you see is the picture, and often times the website says it can not be viewed, and then when you click on the picture, the picture won't load.

Besides, you'd think that these websites would view it as free advertising.

Originally posted by Capt_Fantastic
You know, I've tried to look up porn with google image, and it almost always tells me that it didn't find anything that matches my search criteria. I've even turned off all the filters and safety features. That being said, the few times it has worked, all you see is the picture, and often times the website says it can not be viewed, and then when you click on the picture, the picture won't load.

Besides, you'd think that these websites would view it as free advertising.

hmmmmmm no problems here.

Originally posted by Sir Whirlysplat
Published: Wednesday 22 February 2006
A federal judge has ruled that portions of Google's popular image search feature, which displays small thumbnail versions of images found on other websites, are likely to violate US copyright law.
US District Judge A Howard Matz ruled on Friday that Perfect 10, an adult-oriented website featuring "beautiful natural women" in the nude, has shown that Google image search probably infringes copyright law "by creating and displaying thumbnail copies of its photographs".

http://management.silicon.com/government/0,39024677,39156657,00.htm

See also todays top stories!

You can type in any celebrity and naked pics of them come up, so I don't what the problem is. 😛

They're just mad because google's getting all the advertising revenue off of the porn..As soon as google gives them a cut..they'll be happy..😉

Originally posted by Fishy
Well it was only a matter of time before Google would get sued for something...

Exactly.

Pornographic images are soooooo 1994

This lawsuti is all over the place. Its really over adsense and advertising money I think. Dumb porn industry.

bound to happen sometime

Originally posted by BackFire
Pornographic images are soooooo 1994

😆