AFP Suing Google for $17.5 Million

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 3:51 pm

Seems google is getting bad publicity lately.

(ironicly, I took this article off google news - I go there for news now lol)

http://www.dailyindia.com/newsarticle/2005-03-19/h.php
AFP Suing Google for $17.5 Million
Published: March 19, 2005
by Staff

Global news service Agence France-Presse (AFP) is suing Google for copyright infringement over the search engine publishing their photos, headlines and news stories without permission on its popular Google News Beta.

In the suit, which was filed on Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, AFP is seeking $17.5 million in damages.

"We allow publishers to opt out of Google News but most publishers want to be included because they believe it is a benefit to them and to their readers," Google spokesman Steve Langdon told Reuters.

AFP sells subscriptions for its news content; however the company alleges that Google's search engine crawler has been grabbing and displaying their media content on Google News free of charge.

AFP is headquartered in Paris and features 600 clients around the world.

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Pyr-O-Rgasm · Post by **Pyr-O-Rgasm** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 10:05 pm

Wow, free paysite news. I wonder..... -thinks about paysite porn-

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 10:16 pm

I've had thoughts about going in the porn industry, lot of money. But there'd be a twist to it. Something like XXX ENTER TO VIEW PUSSYS XXX and they'd have to pay and then there would be tons of pictures of cats.

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Triple6_wild · Post by **Triple6_wild** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 6:25 am

lmao i wonder if you could get away with that cuz really its not false advertising if you remove the XXX and dont put any of your own porn images on any of the pages and at no time specify that its anything other then cats

just make sure you make it look like your not selling porn but make it have a porn feel at the same time to trick em into signing up lol

infact to give it a more realistic look you could probly put a few newgrounds.com style porn ad's without getting sued since thay are just there to help lower hosting costs

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 12:15 pm

Yeah that would work too, but I'd probably be getting death threats from horny people that just paid.

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Pyr-O-Rgasm · Post by **Pyr-O-Rgasm** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 2:32 am

And at ALL COSTS! It MUST.... Absolutly MUST, be a black background with HUGE, red or yellow underlined font!

Trust me, if you aren't showing porn in the ENTER page((obviously, since you won't have porn)), that's what it MUST be!

Ok, so I've seen my fair share of porn sites.

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