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posted by janrinok on Saturday April 19 2014, @05:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the get-the-popcorn-and-settle-down dept.

Torrentfreak reports that Google's own systems are being used to host pirate content for streaming video sites like watch32.com and yify.tv. Apparently the pirates have figured out how to get Google to foot the bandwidth bill for their latest business model. The MAFIAA are not pleased, but Google does not seem to have the organizational ability to do anything about it.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 19 2014, @05:22AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 19 2014, @05:22AM (#33284)

    What kind of pirate content could go onto google video? Are the Somali pirates using that to pass on extortion messages?

  • (Score: 2) by NCommander on Saturday April 19 2014, @06:06AM

    by NCommander (2) Subscriber Badge <michael@casadevall.pro> on Saturday April 19 2014, @06:06AM (#33289) Homepage Journal

    I thought the old Google Video service was unplugged when Google bought YouTube?

    (the links suggest picasia is somehow involved, so maybe they use GV on the backend somewhere still ...)

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    • (Score: 3, Informative) by evilviper on Saturday April 19 2014, @06:27AM

      by evilviper (1760) on Saturday April 19 2014, @06:27AM (#33295) Homepage Journal

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Video [wikipedia.org]

      It hasn't hosted videos (like youtube does) in quite a while, but it still exists in name, and has some useful functions. Obviously a video "search engine" not limited to a single site is quite useful. And google video has a realtime multmedia transcoding service, which the "Video Without Flash" extension for Firefox uses to play YouTube (and quite a few other) video site's videos with whatever native HTML5 <video> tag codecs your browser supports (namely, WebM/VP8 for desktop versions of Firefox, and MPEG-4 for Mobile).

       

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    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 19 2014, @07:06AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 19 2014, @07:06AM (#33301)

      So when is the Dotcom-style takedown, complete with police bungling, of Mr Brin & the Googly board? No time soon. They are in on the IN Club, no harm will ever come their way.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 19 2014, @08:14AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 19 2014, @08:14AM (#33308)

        "In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets, and steal loaves of bread." -- Anatole France

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 19 2014, @01:57PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 19 2014, @01:57PM (#33335)

          I don't think that quote really applies here.
          Dotcom is far from being so poor he needs to steal bread to eat.

          • (Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Saturday April 19 2014, @03:34PM

            by Hairyfeet (75) <{bassbeast1968} {at} {gmail.com}> on Saturday April 19 2014, @03:34PM (#33359) Journal

            Its not about wealth anymore as it is about classism and insider access. Brin and Page have it, Dotcom don't. There is a REASON why you see the same schools, like Yale and Harvard, the same faces over and over again, because it has become the ultimate insiders club. Simply having wealth now is no longer enough (unless you get to Romney levels of wealth) because you have to belong to the right circles and be able to have access to the right people to get away with the shit nobody else can.

            Lets face it folks, Youtube IS piracy. its what it was founded on, the emails of the original owners are full of lines like "LOL I hope we get it sold before we get busted LOL" and all Google did was keep the same model and put in a few token anti-piracy measures to give a veneer of legitimacy to what is another Napster. If you removed all the "full albums" and "full movies" off of Youtube their views would drop off the map and they KNOW THIS, which is why they turn a blind eye to these pirate sites, they are bringing tens of millions of viewers which turns into insane amounts of money in ad revenue for Google.

            To me the proof the whole thing is crooked is the simple fact that if YOU tried hosting the EXACT SAME CONTENT currently hosted by Google your ass would be buried in lawsuits before the end of the month, Google not only gets away with it they are making out like bandits from it.

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            • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Saturday April 19 2014, @07:39PM

              by isostatic (365) on Saturday April 19 2014, @07:39PM (#33426) Journal

              In politics, it's more important to get to the right schools and mix with the right people (Yale, Harvard etc, especially law school) than to have lots of money. Obama was from a pretty poor family and got a scholarship. I think Clinton was too (Stepfather was a used car salesman)

              Same in the UK now. Long gone are the days of Thatcher and Major when PMs went to state schools (Thatcher went to Oxford on a Chemistry scholarship, Major left school at 16).

              In UK business you still get self-made captains of industry - Sugar, Dyson, Branson, Peter Jones, Duncan Bannatyne etc. but they tend to be the showy ones. The hidden ones (equivalent of the Kochs) do have those connections. They don't seem to influence politics overtly though, but then the UK has a fairly strong Labour party, which has fairly strong union backing, so can't be seen as too pro-business. Compared with the U.S. the UK has a good choice every election.

            • (Score: 2) by tibman on Sunday April 20 2014, @09:57PM

              by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Sunday April 20 2014, @09:57PM (#33739)

              Piracy might be how youtube started but it certainly isn't what is maintaining it. You can get all the original news, entertainment, and explanations that you could want now. Music videos are probably the only unoriginal content that i still watch. Movies and TV shows are far better to get via Roku/Netflix/Amazon. Unless TimeWarner is throttling the shit out of your connection! : /

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              • (Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Monday April 21 2014, @04:30PM

                by Hairyfeet (75) <{bassbeast1968} {at} {gmail.com}> on Monday April 21 2014, @04:30PM (#34030) Journal

                Funny but I've seen all the original content moving to Blip.tv by a pretty large margin and at an accelerated clip. talking to those that actually made the content the reason is clear....nobody much likes or trusts Google right now, they seem perfectly willing to just screw the little content guys at random while the "full movies" guys get a blind eye turned to them.

                and I can prove that I'm right, ready? Go type in "(name of artist) full album" and then simply look at how many hits the page has gotten and then show me an original content that has anywhere close to that many hits. if you choose any of the big name artists I seriously doubt you'll be able to find one that their albums aren't being ripped of on YouTube and the page hits show that YouTube has become the new TPB for many. Google is making out like fricking bandits on this fact thanks to the ads and again if YOU tried it? Your ass would be in court before the week was out.

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                • (Score: 2) by tibman on Monday April 21 2014, @07:55PM

                  by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 21 2014, @07:55PM (#34127)

                  I think the G+ style integration with youtube turned a lot of people off too. Oh, i totally agree that there is a lot of pirated content on youtube. Google trying to be a good gardener with so much user uploaded content will be impossible. I'm sure the music companies AND google are making out like bandits : )

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                  • (Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Tuesday April 22 2014, @04:28AM

                    by Hairyfeet (75) <{bassbeast1968} {at} {gmail.com}> on Tuesday April 22 2014, @04:28AM (#34247) Journal

                    If you want to se the smoking gun just look up the emails from the original owners of youtube, they were LOLing about how it was nothing but another Napster and that their anti-piracy measures (which google kept) were designed to be gamed so as to keep the pirated content up. They talk about how the original Google video had effective pirate filters which is why they were curbstomping them and how they hoped to get it sold before they got turned into another Limewire and shut down. Its all pretty damning.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 19 2014, @06:17AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 19 2014, @06:17AM (#33292)

    For telling everyone.