New Court Evidence Reveals Hollywood’s Plan to Smear Google
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Re: New Court Evidence Reveals Hollywood’s Plan to Smear Google
#2The MPAA just might have picked on the wrong kid this time.
Re: New Court Evidence Reveals Hollywood’s Plan to Smear Google
#3The MPAA just might have picked on the wrong kid this time.
How so?
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#4Re: New Court Evidence Reveals Hollywood’s Plan to Smear Google
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
How so?
It's probably not too wise to pick on the kids that made it and are swimming in money and power. It'll be The Revenge of the Nerds all over again. Not to mention Google is by now a pretty deft political player.
Specific to the US, who do you think people will side with? Movie stars or Google Lawyers?
I don't see this as being slam-dunk for either side.
Re: New Court Evidence Reveals Hollywood’s Plan to Smear Google
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's probably not too wise to pick on the kids that made it and are swimming in money and power. It'll be The Revenge of the Nerds all over again. Not to mention Google is by now a pretty deft political player.
Specific to the US, who do you think people will side with? Movie stars or Google Lawyers? I don't see this as being slam-dunk for either side.
People will side with MPAA or RIAA?
Re: New Court Evidence Reveals Hollywood’s Plan to Smear Google
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's probably not too wise to pick on the kids that made it and are swimming in money and power. It'll be The Revenge of the Nerds all over again. Not to mention Google is by now a pretty deft political player.
Specific to the US, who do you think people will side with? Movie stars or Google Lawyers? I don't see this as being slam-dunk for either side.
The MPAA/RIAA are not "The Movie Stars" they are "The Movie Studios." It's not even that. The MPAA is an industry lobbying group that the studios are members of. There is no big name movie star that is the "face" of the MPAA.
Re: New Court Evidence Reveals Hollywood’s Plan to Smear Google
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's probably not too wise to pick on the kids that made it and are swimming in money and power. It'll be The Revenge of the Nerds all over again. Not to mention Google is by now a pretty deft political player.
Specific to the US, who do you think people will side with? Movie stars or Google Lawyers? I don't see this as being slam-dunk for either side.
The MPAA isn't made up of movie stars.
So, will people side with Google Lawyers, or Notoriously-Shady-Film-Studio Lawyers?
Re: New Court Evidence Reveals Hollywood’s Plan to Smear Google
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's probably not too wise to pick on the kids that made it and are swimming in money and power. It'll be The Revenge of the Nerds all over again. Not to mention Google is by now a pretty deft political player.
Specific to the US, who do you think people will side with? Movie stars or Google Lawyers? I don't see this as being slam-dunk for either side.
Uhhhh... I think the MPAA's popularity has basically been zero since the whole napster thing.
Re: New Court Evidence Reveals Hollywood’s Plan to Smear Google
#10The MPAA just might have picked on the wrong kid this time.
How so?
Because the MPAA is often the larger entity in court, and with leverage (copyright law). They have a long, litigious history from DMCA takedowns & expansion to SOPA. They don't mind suing individuals, wholesale [1].
In this particular case it's pretty clear the MPAA and the AG were both out of bounds. Why would the AG, the top lawyer for the state government (and supposedly for the people), need to help the MPAA with a smear campaign? According to Google, AG Hood's office supplied a proposal to the MPAA [2] with an editorial suggesting slumping stock prices, media segments in collaboration with the AG, regulatory lawsuits...
This is a conscious, targeted attack against Google because Hollywood didn't get its way. The project was even codenamed "Project Goliath" (related to the MPAA & affiliates, not the AG) [3].
Google has the resources, capability and will to vigorously defend itself where others may have not.
[1] https://w2.eff.org/IP/P2P/MPAA_v_ThePeople/ [2] https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2179... [3] http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/12/7382287/project-goliath