Google admits trespassing in Pa., pays couple $1

AP via Houston Chronicle ^ | Dec. 2, 2010, 11:19AM | no byline

[a fool in paradise]

Google Inc. has acknowledged trespassing by taking a photo of a Pennsylvania couple's home for its Street View service, but the company will pay only $1 in damages.

...Aaron and Christine Boring, of Franklin Park, sued two years ago. They say Google's images of their home were taken from their long driveway, which is a private road.

The couple's attorney says Google has "conceded liability as an intentional trespasser," which was the point of the lawsuit.

[a fool in paradise]

"Be seeing you."

[de.rm]

I'm impressed they didn't pull the Admiralty Law scam/game(i.e. Fed Res & fiat, etc.).

[JPG]

Too bad it didn't happen earlier...they could have bought Newsweak.

[the invisib1e hand]

yeah, so, wow, hey, there's justice!

They've put the human race under constant surveillance, become billionaires doing it, and receive and it didn't even cost them 30 piecese of silver.

[the invisib1e hand]

and receive and it didn't even cost them 30 piecese of silver.

Correction: and it didn't even cost them 30 piecese of silver.

[the invisib1e hand]

Oh, fortheluvoPETE:

30 pieces of silver.

[UCANSEE2]

Might as well go all the way.

Correction: and it didn't even cost them 30 pieces of silver.

[UCANSEE2]

Isn’t it irritating when your fingers won’t listen to your brain?

Bad fingers. Bad, bad.

[de.rm]

But on the other hand(5 fingers) , that's how we get beautiful new words, like piecese(or pie'cese = fr).

Now, we have to come up with a meaning for our new word.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

piecese

n. (plural) Small fillets of fish. A conflation of pieces and Pisces.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Aaron and Christine Boring, of Franklin Park, sued two years ago.

Apparently, this Boring couple was upset that Google was taking pictures from their Boring driveway.

[discostu]

They don’t discuss it in this story but I’ve heard about this one. The couple didn’t want money from Google, they wanted an admission of guilt. Reports floating around this have had Google offering in the millions but without admitting any wrong doing, the couple is financially secure, they didn’t want the money just the admission.

[kitkat]

Google map has become a joke. When I try to locate a business, it always shows the building as though it sits about 500 ft. off the road w/o anything next to it. I much preferred being able to see the buildings next to the one I am looking for so that I can safely slow down and signal to turn.

I notice that they DO include other buildings here and there, I suppose those are the ones who pay to have them put on Google maps.

[a fool in paradise]

I'm waiting for another Boring comic.

[a fool in paradise]

fish cakes

[lacrew]

I never thought about it; but, Google trespassed to get their photo of my house. Didn’t know I could make a buck off of it.

[Sloth]

piecese n. (plural) Small fillets of fish. A conflation of pieces and Pisces.

I got the four-piecese special at Long John Silver's today.

[the invisib1e hand]

They don’t discuss it in this story but I’ve heard about this one. The couple didn’t want money from Google, they wanted an admission of guilt. Reports floating around this have had Google offering in the millions but without admitting any wrong doing, the couple is financially secure, they didn’t want the money just the admission.

Thx for the perspective.

I suppose the legal precedent might be helpful. Well, it would in a just world, at least.

I've argued for years that people who profit from trading your personal info owe you a royalty.

But there isn't a lawyer on the planet who'd bother with anything that wasn't a slam dunk. And a growing segment of the word's economy is invested in the exact opposite principle.

Help the Ministry of Information Help You!

[discostu]

What I found interesting is how much Google was apparently willing to pay to NOT admit they did wrong. Maybe I’m just not cut out for the world of business but if I’m given a pay money or admit to wrong choice I don’t care if I was right or wrong I’ll say I was wrong and keep the money.