{"id":13547,"date":"2012-05-25T00:31:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T22:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=13547"},"modified":"2012-05-25T11:33:39","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T09:33:39","slug":"microsoft-faces-huge-piracy-problems-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/13547\/microsoft-faces-huge-piracy-problems-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft faces huge piracy problems &#8211; Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1719-Google\">Google&#8217;s<\/a> Internet search engine receives more complaints about websites believed to be infringing on <a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1715-Microsoft\">Microsoft&#8217;s<\/a> copyrights than it does about material produced by entertainment companies pushing for tougher laws against online piracy.<\/p>\n<p>A snapshot of Microsoft&#8217;s apparently rampant copyright headaches emerged in new data that Google released Thursday to provide a better understanding of the intellectual property abuses on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>The report provides a breakdown on all requests Google has received since July 2011 to remove copyright-infringing content from its search index.<\/p>\n<p>There were more than 2.5 million requests to remove links believed to be violating Microsoft&#8217;s copyrights. Google Inc. isn&#8217;t identifying the nature of the infringements, but Microsoft Corp. has long complained about illegal downloads of its Windows operating system and other software.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft had no immediate comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s Internet search engine receives more complaints about websites believed to be infringing on Microsoft&#8217;s copyrights than it does about material produced by entertainment companies pushing for tougher laws against online piracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[25,243,53,169,923],"class_list":["post-13547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-data","tag-google","tag-microsoft","tag-piracy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13547"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13592,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13547\/revisions\/13592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}