Nude-photo publisher sues Google

Perfect 10 alleges search giant lets people view hijacked versions of its photos and gives access to stolen passwords.

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Publicity

What a perfect marketing campaign :-)

Yeah, this reads like a perfect 10 press release

'who's current slogan is "The World's Most Beautiful Natural
Women"'?!? What does that have to do with anything.

I bet Reuters just picked up the perfect 10 press release without
even touching it and then the good folks at CNET just passed it
on to us. Journalism...

[trainsem]

It's a publicity stunt all right

Someone with the nouse to build a web site and who is aware of Google can easily prevent all well-behaved search engine spiders from indexing and archiving its content. I won't bother to visit the site to check out its page headers and robots.txt file.

OTOH, ignorance of this is convenient when free publicity is needed.

Publicity

What a perfect marketing campaign :-)

Yeah, this reads like a perfect 10 press release

'who's current slogan is "The World's Most Beautiful Natural
Women"'?!? What does that have to do with anything.

I bet Reuters just picked up the perfect 10 press release without
even touching it and then the good folks at CNET just passed it
on to us. Journalism...

[trainsem]

It's a publicity stunt all right

Someone with the nouse to build a web site and who is aware of Google can easily prevent all well-behaved search engine spiders from indexing and archiving its content. I won't bother to visit the site to check out its page headers and robots.txt file.

OTOH, ignorance of this is convenient when free publicity is needed.

[j3st3r]

Idioms Aplenty

Im tipping that the same people that are sueing Google are the same ones that have, in some way or another, profited from its existance. It's not too great a stretch to suggest that there are plenty of punters that will find their way to perfect10 and their cohorts through the use of a search engine such as Google. With this in mind, one must wonder why the owners of this site have decided to "cut their nose off to spite their face" and resort to legal action.
Perhaps they should opt out of having their trademarks and the like featuring in Google searches, thereby eliminating all the problems the have perceived.
Oooooops! That wouldn't be such a good idea as this would reduce the possible traffic through their site.
Civil litigation - proof you can "eat your cake AND have it".

[j3st3r]

Idioms Aplenty

Im tipping that the same people that are sueing Google are the same ones that have, in some way or another, profited from its existance. It's not too great a stretch to suggest that there are plenty of punters that will find their way to perfect10 and their cohorts through the use of a search engine such as Google. With this in mind, one must wonder why the owners of this site have decided to "cut their nose off to spite their face" and resort to legal action.
Perhaps they should opt out of having their trademarks and the like featuring in Google searches, thereby eliminating all the problems the have perceived.
Oooooops! That wouldn't be such a good idea as this would reduce the possible traffic through their site.
Civil litigation - proof you can "eat your cake AND have it".

[renegade600]

sounds to me...

sounds to me a certain porn website don't know how to setup their security properly.

[renegade600]

sounds to me...

sounds to me a certain porn website don't know how to setup their security properly.

Sue Sue Sue, a fun game we can all play!

Never mind "Give me your money or I will shoot!" now days its "Give me your money or I will sue!" 'LOL' I don't under stand? If they don't want people to see there site, why is it on the internet in the first place? And if they want to protect there site like someone before me said "Secure there site properly" I don't get it, maybe im missing the point. Did google hack there web site? I guess I should sue google too, they are indexing my site as well. Damn Google, stop doing what your were designed to do! *LOL*

Sue Sue Sue, a fun game we can all play!

Never mind "Give me your money or I will shoot!" now days its "Give me your money or I will sue!" 'LOL' I don't under stand? If they don't want people to see there site, why is it on the internet in the first place? And if they want to protect there site like someone before me said "Secure there site properly" I don't get it, maybe im missing the point. Did google hack there web site? I guess I should sue google too, they are indexing my site as well. Damn Google, stop doing what your were designed to do! *LOL*

[martind]

It should never even reach the court.

Why sue Google? If you properly secure a website to stop just anyone viewing the content, then that site will be inaccessible by Google as well. Obviously, if you know the correct URL's for this site, you can bypass the security and Google just happened to follow one of these links. Solution: sue the web designer.

Google has no control over the content that people put on their websites. If someone chooses to give away their username and password publicly on a website, then Google has done nothing wrong. Solution: Google has actually helped to identify the wrongdoers releasing this information and the porn site can revoke the access for those users and sue them (it must fall under a breach of contract or something like that).

Google's job is to follow the hyperlinks it finds, prioritise the content for relevance as best it can and serve it up to those that request it. Perfect10 is just out to get free publicity at Google's expense and because it's too expensive to go after the real culprits. If I were Google, I'd say have it your way then and pull everything related to Perfect10 out of the index. Lets see how long they last without Google to drive customers to their site.

[martind]

It should never even reach the court.

Why sue Google? If you properly secure a website to stop just anyone viewing the content, then that site will be inaccessible by Google as well. Obviously, if you know the correct URL's for this site, you can bypass the security and Google just happened to follow one of these links. Solution: sue the web designer.

Google has no control over the content that people put on their websites. If someone chooses to give away their username and password publicly on a website, then Google has done nothing wrong. Solution: Google has actually helped to identify the wrongdoers releasing this information and the porn site can revoke the access for those users and sue them (it must fall under a breach of contract or something like that).

Google's job is to follow the hyperlinks it finds, prioritise the content for relevance as best it can and serve it up to those that request it. Perfect10 is just out to get free publicity at Google's expense and because it's too expensive to go after the real culprits. If I were Google, I'd say have it your way then and pull everything related to Perfect10 out of the index. Lets see how long they last without Google to drive customers to their site.

[cpudrewfl]

please get a real job

To the adult site vendor get a real job. Running a porn site is idiot proff wow buy content put it on website. When people are tired of your garbage generate spyware ads and cause grief for internet users. I hope Google wins because google does so much more for the internet society then useless scamming porn sites

[cpudrewfl]

please get a real job

To the adult site vendor get a real job. Running a porn site is idiot proff wow buy content put it on website. When people are tired of your garbage generate spyware ads and cause grief for internet users. I hope Google wins because google does so much more for the internet society then useless scamming porn sites

Lawyers must love these guys

They just want money any way they can get it. The world is full of people who completely make up lawsuits. Did anyone else notice the part where it talked about perfect10's suit against financial institutions (Visa, MC, etc.) because they profit from the sale of pirated material?

Lawyers must love these guys

They just want money any way they can get it. The world is full of people who completely make up lawsuits. Did anyone else notice the part where it talked about perfect10's suit against financial institutions (Visa, MC, etc.) because they profit from the sale of pirated material?