{"id":7191,"date":"2014-12-23T17:50:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T22:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nccomputertech.com\/?p=7191"},"modified":"2014-12-23T17:50:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T22:50:24","slug":"google-wrangles-with-mississippi-attorney-general-after-sony-leaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/2014\/12\/23\/google-wrangles-with-mississippi-attorney-general-after-sony-leaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Google wrangles with Mississippi attorney general after Sony leaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2863272\/google-in-tussle-with-state-attorney-general-after-sony-leaks.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/gavel_keyboard-100245433-large.jpg\" alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The recent data breach at Sony Pictures Entertainment has prompted a war of words between Google and the U.S movie industry, with the Internet giant accusing a state attorney general of collaborating with movie studios in a copyright enforcement campaign against it.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute has spilled over into the U.S. court system. On Monday, Judge Henry Wingate of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi gave Google an additional two months to respond to a 79-page subpoena filed in October by Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, according to an Associated Press report. Hood had originally given Google until Jan. 5 to respond.<\/p>\n<p>Google on Friday asked the court to throw out the subpoena, days after the company accused Hood of using Motion Picture Association of America lawyers to draft a letter accusing Google of profiting from online piracy and illegal drug sales.<\/p>\n<p>The movie studios have long accused Google of not doing enough to stop online distribution of pirated films. But the latest tiff started after emails released by Sony hackers showed the MPAA, Sony and five other large movie studios working together to attack a company code-named Goliath, widely believed to be Google.<\/p>\n<p>The multi-year campaign by the studios would \u201crebut Goliath\u2019s public advocacy\u201d and \u201camplify negative Goliath news,\u201d the Verge reported in mid-December. The campaign included an effort to work with state attorneys general and major ISPs to control the flow of data online, the Verge reported.<\/p>\n<p>News reports about the MPAA\u2019s Goliath campaign prompted Google general counsel Kent Walker, in a blog post last Thursday, to accuse the MPAA and Hood of trying to revive the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act [SOPA], the antipiracy bill killed in the U.S. Congress in early 2012 after massive online protests.<\/p>\n<p>In the Friday filing asking the Mississippi court to kill Hood\u2019s subpoena, Google\u2019s lawyers argue that Hood\u2019s investigation of Google is trumped by federal laws, including legal protections in the Communications Decency Act for Web-based services that publish third-party content.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the last 18 months, the Mississippi attorney general has threatened to prosecute, sue or investigate Google unless it agrees to block from its search engine, YouTube video-sharing site, and advertising systems third-party content &#8230; that the attorney general deems objectionable,\u201d Google\u2019s lawyers wrote. \u201cWhen Google did not agree to his demands, the attorney general retaliated, issuing an enormously burdensome subpoena and asserting he now has \u2018reasonable grounds to believe\u2019 that Google has engaged in \u2018deceptive\u2019 or \u2018unfair\u2019 trade practice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for Hood didn\u2019t respond to a request for comment on the Google court filing, but Hood on Friday reportedly called for a \u201ctime out\u201d in his dispute with Google.<\/p>\n<p>The MPAA, however, has not backed down. \u201cGoogle\u2019s effort to position itself as a defender of free speech is shameful,\u201d MPAA spokeswoman Kate Bedingfield said by email. \u201cFreedom of speech should never be used as a shield for unlawful activities and the internet is not a license to steal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s blog post last week was a \u201ctransparent attempt to deflect focus from its own conduct and to shift attention from legitimate and important ongoing investigations by state attorneys general into the role of Google search in enabling and facilitating illegal conduct,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Bedingfield, responding to the accusations that MPAA lawyers have assisted Hood\u2019s investigation, pointed to a Public Citizen blog post defending the practice of state attorneys general getting assistance from outside lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHiring outside counsel to do consumer protection work that many AG offices are understaffed to handle expands the enforcement power of those offices,\u201d wrote Scott Michelman of Public Citizen\u2019s Litigation Group. \u201cThe state can better enforce its laws, protect its citizens, and potentially reap financial benefits by recovering money it wouldn\u2019t have otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2863272\/google-in-tussle-with-state-attorney-general-after-sony-leaks.html\" target=\"_blank\">Google wrangles with Mississippi attorney general after Sony leaks | PCWorld<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent data breach at Sony Pictures Entertainment has prompted a war of words between Google and the U.S movie 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