[governance] Google Caught Tracking Safari Users: What You Need to Know

[Imran Ahmed Shah]

Dear Mc Tim, followigns are references please:
 
Google fined for book copyright:
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>Google’s Piracy Liabilities: 
>Google so strongly opposes anti-piracy legislation in part because Google appreciates it is unique among major corporations in having a very public and extensive track record over several years that has been anti-IP enforcement. In addition to its high-profile, pushing-the-envelope of copyright infringement with both Google Booksand YouTube, in August Google signed a criminal Non-Prosecution Agreementwith the Department of Justice tosettle criminal charges that Google knowingly and repeatedly violated Federal criminal laws prohibiting the “unsafe and unlawfulimportation of prescription drugs into the U.S. for several years. Google also paid a near-record $500 million criminal forfeiture penaltyto settle these piracy charges. Given that the U.S. Attorney who led the Google criminal piracy probe indicated the evidence was clear current senior management, including Google CEO “Larry Page,knew what was going on” and did not stop the piracy, suggests
 that Google’s piracy liability is likely not limited to just aiding and abetting illegal prescription drug imports, but could involve many other kinds of goods and services as well.[http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottcleland/2011/11/09/googles-piracy-liability/]
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>What does the settlement provide?:
>Google will also pay at least $45 million to resolve existing claims of Rightsholders for Books and Inserts that Google scanned without permission as of May 5, 2009, which is the date by which class members must notify the parties if they wish to opt out of the Settlement (the "Opt-Out Deadline"). Rightsholders will be able to file claims to receive cash payments, but must do so on or before January 5, 2010. 
>[http://books.google.com/booksrightsholders/settlement-what.html]
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>A French court has found Google guilty of infringing copyright by digitising books without the approval of the publisher.
>The search giant must pay €300,000 in damages to Herve de La Martiniere. Google will also have to pay a daily fine of €10,000 until it clears the books from its database, the BBC reports. [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/18/google_books_defeat/]
Question is this that what are the possibilities for another " Agreement" with the DoC in near future to settle the "Piracy Infringement that Google knowingly and repeatedly violated" about the collecting and using the data & contents from their common profiels which are shared through single sign-in among all of Google Applications (gmail/facebook/myspace etc).
 
Thanks
 
Imran Ahmed Shah

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>From: McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com>
>To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; Imran Ahmed Shah <ias_pk at yahoo.com> 
>Cc: Daniel Kalchev <daniel at digsys.bg>; Louis Pouzin (well) <pouzin at well.com>; Marie Georges <marie.georges at noos.fr> 
>Sent: Tuesday, 21 February 2012, 11:16
>Subject: Re: [governance] Google Caught Tracking Safari Users: What You Need to Know
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>On 2/21/12, Imran Ahmed Shah <ias_pk at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> With reference to piracy of data, Google has accepted a huge fine through
>> the court orders.
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>It was actually a fine negotiated with the Department of Justice, not
>a court ordered fine.
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>and it wasn't about piracy of data at all.
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>Googlepaida near-record $500 million criminal forfeiture
>> penalty.
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>I'm not sure it was "criminal" in that one has to be found guilty of a
>crime to be a "criminal".
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>He also was ordered to pay the cost of pirated material. Thus, in
>> return, Google got the ownership of the data and contents of the Users.
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>I can't parse this.
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>The $500 million represents the money Google made from selling the
>drug ads, plus the revenue earned by Canadian pharmacies from sales to
>American customers.
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>All google got out of it in the end was a black eye.
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>> Google is making them pay for their material and getting ownership rights
>> legally through a middle company.
>
>????
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>They had to stop selling ads from Canadian pharmacies.
>
>On the Internet, if a product is free, you are not a customer, you are
>the product!
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>-- 
>Cheers,
>
>McTim
>"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
>route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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