A few years back, all our inboxes (even on Linux-only
mail systems) were
flooded with Spam advertising incredibly
cheap licenses for non-free software,
including many MS
products. The same stuff was being advertised on web sites,
in news groups and other places searchable by Google.
Many of these
outfits pretended in their advertising to
be using loopholes in the "OEM"
hardware bundling discount
programs to procure and sell licenses at lower than
retail
prices, but their prices were so far below actual "OEM"
prices that
these goods were obviously fake, cracked,
photocopied or other forms of real
commercial copyright
piracy (not the "softlifting" that RIAA/MPAA/SPA fanatics
usually persecute).
Thus it is easy to imagine a diligent MS team
finding
500.000 such piracy links on Google and sending the proper
DMCA
notices, completely as expected and accepted by Google
and the proponents of
DMCA safe harbor protection for the
Google's of this world.
The 500.000
number was given as an anti-SOPA argument as
to why the music industry should
stop whining and demanding
extreme legislation for someone elses problems.
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