Google is looking into a unexampled strategy for cracking down on piracy sites : trend off the source of their fundingso they ’ll wither and die .
TheTelegraphsays Google is in cahoots with Visa , MasterCard , and PayPal to stop issue money to web site that host links to illicitly obtained book , movies , and TV shows . This plan would also stop feeding hard cash to site that do n’t reply to effectual requests because they ’re offshore or out of the commonwealth .
It would be the first time Google has select such a drastic step to cut down on piracy , but not the first for fiscal company . PayPal , Visa , and MasterCard , among others , stopped donations to WikiLeaks in 2011 to cease donation to the document - dropping site . Although WikiLeaks has n’t gone away entirely , that move seems to have severely hampered its operation , which seems to be exactly what Google would care to do for pirate sites . [ The Telegraph ]
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