Comments on: HBO censors HBO

By: timquinn

timquinn — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 05:02:00 +0000

it’s an internal squabble.

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 01:30:00 +0000

Nonsense. I’m not getting worried until HBO censors HBO’s censorship of HBO.

By: Damien Guard

Damien Guard — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:37:00 +0000

You’re assuming this was accidental. The reality is taking down results on Google lets you manipulate rankings. They may have wanted HBO’s ranking of their non-store page to rank higher.

By: That_Anonymous_Coward

That_Anonymous_Coward — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 23:55:00 +0000

And just for fun… the company that generated this well verified list of infringing material on the HBO website… they are also the secret police handing out the strikes for the 6 Strikes program in the US. Totally going to be okay, no question they know exactly what they are doing….

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 23:46:00 +0000

They’re job creators!

Or is it jobsworths?

By: oasisob1

oasisob1 — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 22:24:00 +0000

And forcing HBO to complete copyright education training.

By: JonS

JonS — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 22:21:00 +0000

I agree, and in these cases they should *ruthlessly* enforce the letter – rather than the spirit – of the law.

By: Thad Boyd

Thad Boyd — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 21:57:00 +0000

I trust that these willful infringers will receive the same treatment from the US Attorney’s Office as Aaron Swartz did. Right?

By: l337n00b

l337n00b — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 21:35:00 +0000

You mean asking the particular third party that the plurality of internet users would ask if they wanted to know about it.

By: Jorgen Fleisterman

Jorgen Fleisterman — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 21:35:00 +0000

Yo dawg I heard you like censorship in your HBO so we put some HBO in your censorship so now you can censor while you HBO!

By: mccrum

mccrum — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 21:31:00 +0000

This is even worse. It’s HBO telling google to stop telling people about their HBO show. They are literally paying to host their own content and advertise for it and then asking a third party to stop telling people about it.

By: Thü

Thü — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 21:22:00 +0000

This is symptomatic for the entertainment industry. They have such a low IQ, they still don’t understand even a bit about the internet. Like CBS who would not allow me to see a teaser or others who wont sell me a download, both because of geographic restrictions. Okay, so I get it elsewhere. Censor Youtube clips? Its harassing people who make free advertisement for them. They don’t want to get free advertisement? So, why don’t we stop and never mention any of their products ever again! Lets see how the loss of that many millions in free advertisement will affect them.

By: TheOven

TheOven — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 21:00:00 +0000

It is my opinion that Google should do exactly as they ask when it catches these kinds of self-immolating requests.

By: dculberson

dculberson — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 20:46:00 +0000

I picture an instant DDOS-level flood of automatically generated take-down notices and immediate counter-responses demanding that the take-down notices be taken down, and so on in a race condition. The bandwidth and processing requirements very quickly scale towards infinity. Then a hole into the A’th dimension opens up. (A for a–hole.)

By: GawainLavers

GawainLavers — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 20:38:00 +0000

I hope Google responded with alacrity, shutting down the channel and deleting all content just to be safe.

By: Alan Olsen

Alan Olsen — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 20:35:00 +0000

Didn’t this happen in an episode of Max Headroom? Now if we can just get the censor to censor itself.

By: Aeron

Aeron — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 20:33:00 +0000

Orboros.