I was actually being ironic with that Google bit. I think that events like those you describe are a big problem for everyone - it's (usually) people that have an obsolete business model they desperately want to hang on to, that go to lawyers to try and punish third parties because they can't get the hands on the actual trouble makers.
Making everyone responsible for everything is just not a way I like to see the whole IPO debate go.
I do believe that when illegal things are reported to service providers, that you have to act on it when the claim is legal. But to ask people to monitor everything in the service is just stupid. In many cases it can't be done.
There are degrees of control man. You set some unrealistic demands for services, but that's pretty easy since it's not your service. What if someone held you accountable for me buying you DVD and showing it to minors.. would that be fair? Fuck no. That's my problem, not yours.
People should only be held accountable for their own actions (or lack thereof). But no way would I every accept that I had to constantly screen my service. Just like I don't think every single data center, DNS provider, sattelite provider (what about GPS services lol) or ISP is monitoring everything just because someone has some intellectual properties that are being violated. People like you are blowing it way out of proportion man. No offence but I think we'll just have to agree to disagree here
