this post has nothing to do with google pirating anything. if anything, this case showcases google as a pro-piracy advocate in favour of the general population!

the complainants allege that an advertising agency should not profit from advertisements placed by other persons who don't hold copyright for the advertised goods.

thia position is an overreach any way one looks at it. if someone advertises a scam in a newspaper, for example, it's not the responsibility of the newspaper to verify the antecedents of the sponsor.

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The Court accepts that the removal of infringing ads and the termination of accounts may have an indirect effect by reducing traffic to the pirate sellers’ websites. However, that doesn’t mean that Google has any control over the websites where the infringement takes place, or that any measures applied to search would change that.

So this judge decides that Google is not liable for ads it shows, and because the publishers' issue is with the advertiser themselves, Google does not need to lift a finger to help prevent unlawful stealing. Great. By this logic Google can continue peddling porn to children, viruses to the unaware and harmful ideology to the vulnerable, because Google isn't the one serving the actual content. GG judge.

Piracy is cool when Google do it, Piracy is bad when we do it