Rupert Murdoch, the leader of News Corp and king of Fox Nation, hasn’t been on Twitter very long, but he’s managed to dive right in to the short message service with quite a spark. This past weekend, he launched a crusade against Google for being a “piracy leader.” His reasoning is that he is able to use the search engine to search for movies and yield torrent results, which he apparently holds Google culpable for.
On a scale from one to ten, this guy is a fucking douchebag
Now, let’s just for a minute overlook the fact that I was unable to replicate his alleged search results (he claimed to search for “Mission Impossible” and said that Google yielded “several” illegal download sites; in fact, a search for “Mission Impossible” yielded four consecutive pages of legitimate search results. I didn’t go any further than four because honestly that’s quite sufficient, but I bet the legitimacy extends still further). Even if I had been able to find the illegal downloads, what is perhaps more telling is that I was perfectly unable to find legal downloads. I found reviews, movie trailers, parodies, and more, but not a single site where I could legitimately pay for and download the movie.
This is frequently true of music as well. I’m a firm believer in paying creative people for their work, and often times the industry designed to support this activity utterly fails to give me the option to do so. Although I do not resort to illegal downloading, I understand those who do try searching for ways to pay for music who then give up and simply click a torrent.
But back to Murdoch. The corporate kingpins tirade made waves in the Twitterverse, and calls for him to back up his allegations went unanswered (not that the leader of Fox News is likely to feel any shame for nakedly false assertions). Google’s response was fast and fierce, openly calling the claims “nonsense” and setting off what has the makings of a hot back-and-forth between the two massive companies.
And if there’s one thing Twitter is good for, it’s petty fights between people who ought to know better – all in 140 characters or less. No wonder Murdoch took to the environment so naturally.
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