14 DAY TRIAL // It's well known the fact that Google Video shows full length pirated movies but the National Legal and Policy Center decided to start a campaign against the Mountain View company and created a top 50 cracked videos displayed on the official page of the service. Although numerous companies and organizations are accusing the search giant for the content published on Google Video, the big G doesn't seem to be bothered and continues to provide access to them. Some might say that Google is doing this for traffic that actually means money but we can't blame it without any proof.
Some time ago, the first full length discovered on Google Video attracted an avalanche of critics over the folks from the Googleplex. At that time, they removed it quickly but soon after that, it was reported that the same movie is up and available to all the users with a different name.
Today, the National Legal and Policy Center says there are hundreds of similar videos but the Mountain View company does nothing to stop this phenomenon. That's why they created an interesting table to show every producer affected by the Google Video service along with the number of days since it was posted, the film name and the number of views.
"All of this content was readily available for viewing by any visitor to Google Video or YouTube as recently as Saturday, July 7th 2007. Much of the content is recent and some of the movies posted on Google Video right now are still even in theaters," the National Legal and Policy Center said in a statement. "NLPC intends to update the database periodically with new potentially infringing content and will continue to track how many days potentially infringing content remains on the sites. While it is beyond our resources to produce a definitive database, we hope this effort raises public awareness about the very serious problem of intellectual property theft."
For example, the first place is won by Warner Brothers with its Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire (par 1) with 165.367 views in 434 days of availability on the Google Video page.