Comments on: Nude-photo site wins injunction against Google

Judge says Google image search violates copyright of Perfect 10, which sells photos of nude women.
Images: Searching for perfection

[itworker--2008]

Google looses porn revenue

Without the thumbnails what are 100% of the boys between 8-30 going to do all day on the internet?

[rcrusoe]

8 - 30?

Don't count out the 31-60+ crowd.

When we were demonstrating some high end monitoring equipment (for the chairman of my previous employer), the first web pages we trapped and displayed belonged to a white haired executive vp with a penchant for cheerleaders. :)

[openminded]

Higher Productivity?

Maybe it could be for the best, what would all these men do with their time instead of browsing for 'thumbnails'

... maybe increase their productivity searching for useful knowledge, therefore expanding the mindset of the whole population, therefore helping the world & technology develop far quicker than if the majority of gents only adorned 1 inch squares of what they can view every day (as long as they weren't reclusive)(although the internet may be a reclusive area?)

[Dario Western]

You must be joking!

Do you really think that only guys aged between 8-30 like porn on the internet? that is really naive!!

[Dachi]

Where did Google get them?

If the images are on a restricted section of the site, Google will not be able to spider them.

If they are sample pics on the main page available to the general public, what is the big deal so long as Google credits the source (and it does). It would just mean more traffic.

And third, If other sites are hosting prefect 10's copyrighted pics, and Google spiders them, isn't it the third party who is responsible for infringing?

I guess the answers to these questions will surface in time.

[DougDbug]

From the pirate sites.

The story says... These are links to the pirate sites.

[Nick D]

I have 3 words for you!

robots dot txt!

put
User-agent: *
Disallow: /

[declan00]

actually robots.txt has nothing to do with this case

from the article:

The photo publisher says it's plagued by copyright pirates who pay its $25.50 monthly fee and then reproduce its copyright images on sites that are indexed by Google and incorporated in its image search feature.

[JenMarie]

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huh? im trying to get into this but i dont understand it.

[JenMarie]

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huh? im trying to get into this but i dont understand it.

[davebarnes]

Link?

Where is the link in the story to Perfect10?

I am not sure that I can deduce that it is www.perfect10.com

[thanhvn]

facilitating piracy, maybe?

From reading the story it seems like Google is being sued for facilitating piracy, i.e. being paid to advertise for sites with pirated content (from Perfect 10, in this instance). I maybe wrong but there seems to be legitimate grievance behind the lawsuit. As an analogy to the offline world, if you are being paid to advertise to help thieves sell (or even distribute for free) stolen goods, it is reasonable to classify you as an accomplice.

On the other hand, web indexing is mostly automated with very little human intervention (with the size of the web being what it is). Even a human would have some difficulty separating the legal content from illegal content in a lot of cases. How then is a piece of software is expected to be able to do that? There seems to be more and more pressure on web content providers and facilitators to use technology to enforce existing laws (and there are plenty of laws that forbid plenty of things on the web). There is a saying that necessity is the mother of invention, but I am really skeptical that software with that kind of intelligence can be invented in the near term, and I shudder to think of the social impact if such software is invented.

[KsprayDad]

Accomplice

As an analogy to the offline world, if you are being paid to advertise to help thieves sell (or even distribute for free) stolen goods, it is reasonable to classify you as an accomplice.

So a newspaper should be held accountable for any stolen goods being sold through its want ads?

Ebay needs to check out weather every good being sold on its site is not stolen?

[KsprayDad]

Another example

of the law not keeping up to tech.

As an example...

Has ANY newspaper been sued successfully for running want ads of stolen goods? The newspaper is earning money off other ads in the paper (equivelent to Google earning $ with Adsense).

If a newspaper does not have to verify the legality of what is being sold in their very own paper how can Google be held accountable for what is being sold on 3rd party sites?

Perfect10 has to go after the pirates, not Google.

BTW...seems to me that, in America, you can get some pretty good free advertising for your website by just launching a suit against Google or Yahoo etc....when this gets shot down in the courts I hope Google can counter sue for the boost in revenue Perfect10 will get from this 'air time'
****Personal Act of Tyranny***
Oh ya...don't forget...if you want to run OSX on your x86 you are NOT allowed to know how to do it in the US...there does seem to be some info ;) on a foreign site www maxxuss com (put the dots in...I don't want to be shut down by DMCA)

[KsprayDad]

slight correction

www maxxuss ru

[C Manara]

Slight correction: Google, Adwords, and French trademark law

Actually, Google won a judicial battle over its Adwords in France, for the first time. This happened two weeks ago

[wessman]

Where does copyright reach end?

If these photos are copyright material, why didn't the website owner secure them behind an HTTPS login, whether free or subscription only?

Why didn't the website owner deny the directories in a robot.txt file in the root of the web server?

And didn't the website owner gain web traffic thanks to Google?

This lawsuit sounds like an attempt at grabbing free press and suing a big company for money. Nothing more.

This ruling endangers everything a search engine indexes: words, photos, icons, etc.

Why should copyright and patent laws serve only the corporate arm? Why can't it also serve the public interest?

Think of the economic impacts if search engines had to be shut down because of copyright laws.

[mikjones]

can you read?

The article said that Google indexed the images from websites who were using the images illegally. So you comment about HTTPS and robot.txt and website owners is completely out of context. Go ahead and argue that Google shouldn't have to worry about whether other people violate copyright law but at least don't muddle the argument.

[dave aszenine]

LOL

that is awesome.

[computerlegalexperts.com]

Duh...robots.txt

Google's attorney's blew it. Perfect 10 has the ability to to not have their files indexed by putting a robots.txt file in their main directory. Someone call Judge Metz and give him a heads-up on this.

Steven Moshlak
www.computerlegalexperts.com

[declan00]

robots.txt has nothing to do with this case

from the article:

The photo publisher says it's plagued by copyright pirates who pay its $25.50 monthly fee and then reproduce its copyright images on sites that are indexed by Google and incorporated in its image search feature.

[Soupir]

Worst Web Design I Have Ever Seen

Dude, your site is an animated GIFfy piece of crap.

[Soupir]

Worst Web Design I Have Ever Seen

Dude, your site is an animated GIFfy piece of crap.

[Soupir]

Worst.Website.Ever.

Your website's design stinks. Animated GIFs and no CSS? Y-a-w-n.