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Google Must Testify as LaLiga Demands Criminal Liability For 'Piracy Profits'. (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A court in Murcia, Spain, has ordered Google to testify in a criminal case concerning IPTV app, NewPlay. Football league LaLiga, whose matches were allegedly offered illegally through the app, previously called for the directors of Google, Apple, and Huawei to face criminal charges. LaLiga criticized the companies for failing to disable copies of NewPlay already installed on users' devices. Google and Huawei must now testify as 'profit-making participants' in an alleged piracy scheme.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Imagine thinking that piracy sites advertize, or generate any sort of revenue for search engines.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's not Google's search buisness that LaLiga is going after it's the cell phone side. LaLiga claims Google and Huawei benefited by refusing to disable the newplay app on their phones.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

... but they did, remove it from the Play Store.

Yeah, no, that's not even a capability that Google has. Android is not built in a way that would allow them to do this, nor is there any rational reason they should alter it to do so.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Agree 100%. My guess is that removing software from a device you don't own without the owner's permission is illegal in Europe. I believe Microsoft got in trouble for removing 3rd party antivirus.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Isn't it more because google ignored court orders to disable a piracy app on the play store?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

... but they did, remove it from the Play Store.

Yeah, no, that's not even a capability that Google has. Android is not built in a way that would allow them to do this, nor is there any rational reason they should alter it to do so.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Huh, my brain somehow added a "not" to that first sentence or something. My mistake.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Fair enough.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I swear they have the most ads of any sites I have seen without an adblocker, though I guess they don't pay to be advertised themselves

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Those advertizements tend to be porn, escorts, and "dating sims". Stuff that main-stream ad companies, Google included, won't touch. The search engines are not profiting from those ads.