How using Google Images can cost you $8000

Headline should be, "How not being familiar with the law as it pertains to your business model can cost you $3000 plus lawyer's fees", but that's much less sexy.

This could be a lucrative business model. Take a lot of photos, get them indexed on Google Images and set up some mechanism to detect when the image is used without your permission. Sue, settle, profit!

Already submitted and killed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7031684

Top comment makes it pretty clear. This is clear infringement and rookie mistake from the company, not news.

No worries, once the Google-backed EME passes through the MPAA-infested W3C [1], thousands of sites will begin utilizing the OS-level DRM Google and Microsoft have been baking into ChromeOS and Windows 8, and then Google Images will fast become outdated, because the DRM won't allow even Google to get those images. I hope Google will be really proud of themselves when that day will come.

[1] - http://ces.cnet.com/8301-35296_1-57616860/mpaa-joins-web-sta...

DMCA only applies for third party content.