segunda-feira, 23 de janeiro de 2012

Google cut off Megaupload's ad money voluntarily back in 2007

URL: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/google-cut-off-megauploads-ad-money-voluntarily-back-in-2007.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss


The federal government's 72-page indictment of file hosting site Megaupload is stuffed with odd bits of information. Take page 34, for instance, which features a single paragraph about Google's AdSense program. It reads:

On or about May 17, 2007, a representative from Google AdSense, an Internet advertising company, send an e-mail to [Megaupload founder Kim] DOTCOM entitled "Google AdSense Account Status.” In the e-mail, the representative stated that “[d]uring our most recent review of your site,” Google AdSense specialists found “numerous pages” with links to, among other things, “copyrighted content,” and therefore Google AdSense “will no longer be able to work with you.” The e-mail contains links to specific examples of offending content located on Megaupload.com. DOTCOM and his conspirators have continued to operate and financially profit from the Megaupload.com website after receiving this notice.

Sometime later, Megaupload launched an internal advertising agency so that it collect even higher amounts of cash from placing ads on its download pages.

Read the rest of this article...

Read the comments on this post

Nenhum comentário: