So Now...
When we go to a dodgy site we won't have Google selling us penis enlargement pills, it will be someone else...
The Internet's big brands are volunteering to try and withhold advertising dollars from piracy-related Web sites, and have linked arms with the White House's Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator to promote a no-ads-for-pirates scheme. Microsoft, Yahoo!, AOL, 24/7 Media, Adtegrity, AOL, Condé Nast, Google, SpotXchange …
If they don't like what you're saying or doing, big business gets it's mates to make sure you can't earn a crust out of it. Evidently another string to the bow beyond the usual card processors and paypal. How long I wonder before they're paying outsourced staff to poison your pet hamster or ring your doorbell and run away at 3am in an attempt to put you off your game.
It's hardly an industry of great reputation when I'm constantly getting bombarded with "Earn MegaBucks Working for Google!", "Find out the one easy tip that's got $INDUSTRY fuming!", and "Get your Russian mail order bride now!".
Once advertisers stop peddling counterfeit goods, dodgy pills, lies and pyramid schemes, then they might be in a position to talk.
That would be the MAFIAA® gangsters who pervert the democratic process.
Withholding cash will simply increase the profits of Microsoft, Yahoo!, AOL, 24/7 Media, Adtegrity, AOL, Condé Nast, Google, SpotXchange and the Internet Advertising Bureau.
This means they have no incentive to check that a "rights holder" has filed “valid, reasonable and sufficiently detailed notices” and every incentive to blindly accept each and every notice.
At the very least, any withheld funds should go to a charity and any tax savings from the charitable donation should also go to a charity.
Google: Do you have a copy of Windows 8?
Seller #1: Yeah, one with a picture of Steve Ballmer climbing the Empire State Building on the front.
Google: So, let me get this straight. You want sell me a copy of Windows 8 with Steve Ballmer imitating King Kong on the cover and you're telling me it's completely legit?! I think that warrants 2 hours of W.O.O.
Seller #1: What's W.O.O?
Seller #2: You had to ask.
Google: With...out...oxygen. No oxygen for 2 hours. That'll teach you to be pirates.
They will, in addition, make the “best practices guidelines” officially part of their terms and conditions, and maintain policies that “include language indicating that Websites should not engage in violations of law”.
So if Microsoft is found to be acting illegally in Germany and elsewhere by cooperating so easily with US authorities does that mean they'll be forced to reject their own ads?