Piracy: Google denounced a conspiracy movie studios – BBC

The film and music require new measures to remove links to pirate sites in search engine results. French proposals in this direction.

The film majors and music have engaged in a new battle of titans to clean Internet piracy . After will be taken to the platforms of illegal downloading and targeted users with flexible response mechanism, they attack the one that is, in their eyes, the first link in the chain piracy. Google

Since the beginning of the year, the MPAA, the association that represents the interests of American cinema, has initiated intense lobbying against the search engine. In confidential exchanges between the leaders of the Hollywood studios, revealed following the hacking of computer system Sony Pictures, it comes to organizing to “refute” methodically its arguments and “amplify the negative information” about him. A budget of at least $ 500 000 is dedicated to this business.

Google, designated under the code name “Goliath” in these emails has become the bane of American cinema since opposed the proposed US legislation Sopa. The text should facilitate locking pirate sites like The Pirate Bay, and accelerate their withdrawal from search engines. It was abandoned in the face of strong opposition from web players and users.

Three years later, American cinema has matured and changed his revenge strategy. It now accuses Google directly vis-à-vis the pirates complacency. The search engine would show unwillingness to remove links to illegal sites of its results. The MPAA is seeking political support to pass tougher anti-piracy measures her. The association already has the ear of the Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, who is responsible for forwarding a list of grievances to Google by taking almost verbatim his argument.

In a note blog released Thursday, Google accuses the MPAA to foment a “conspiracy” against him and tries to rally to his cause users, waving the threat of Internet censorship. #ZombieSOPA A hashtag on Twitter was launched. Google also filed a complaint against the Attorney General Jim Hood, to prevent it from obtaining confidential information about its business.

At the same time, the engine denies any laxity. He set up a reporting system that assigns tell it illegal content including removing links. He received 224 million withdrawal requests last year and accepted 222 million. In October, Google announced that hackers most frequently reported sites would be delisted. The power of life and death over pirate sites that has not convinced.

The case is of the utmost importance to Google. If American cinema is leading the debate spreads to other industries and pressures are increasing. Now, Google is looking to expand in the sale and rental of cultural content to feed its YouTube or Google Play services, which requires not to cut all the rights holders. In January, the Ifpi, the world representing music producers, had ordered to take, finally, actions against piracy. A repeated requests is to ensure that links removed once do not reappear on the same site in another address.

In France, a report to the Minister of Culture in early year suggested creating a “prolonged withdrawal injunction” to stop the recurrence of violations of copyright. In its annual report published in September, the State Council recommended to change the law which are subject platforms such as Google and compel them to prevent a recurrence of these links.