Perfect 10 – a magazine notorious in LA for existing only to get the man behind it laid (NEWSFLASH: it works) – has been in court since 2004 trying to get Google to remove thumbnails of images from Perfect 10 from Google’s search results.
It’s a facile case, based on the incorrect assumption that the more people who know about your magazine, the fewer copies you sell, but it raises interesting questions about Google’s ability to suck-up websites and republish them in order to sell ads. As a test case you couldn’t wish for a less sympathetic plaintiff, and Perfect 10 just won.
To quote the Google representative I spoke with earlier today:
“Fuck, shit, fucking mother-fucking God-damn mother-shitting fuck!”
Apparantly elevnty-billion dollars worth of lawyers isn’t as persuasive as hot models with natural tits. Judge Matz has also ruled against Amazon, because bitch-slapping both Google and Amazon in one day says ‘Don’t fuck with Judge Matz’ pretty damn loud.
If this ruling stands it’ll require Google to completely rethink the way it indexes media content and, as Perfect 10’s a porn mag, Judge Matz might find he has the support of the anti-sex brigade when the inevitable appeal begins. This is going to be really interesting…
Popularity: 33% [?]
…and we can only assume that the Perfect 10 webmaster has never heard of a robots.txt file, right?
Rich – I told him that be he mumbled something about a broken Roomba, and said expecting him to build robot technology capable of battling Google was utterly ludicrous.