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Online piracy bills in Congress wrong: Google exec

MINNEAPOLIS: Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said on Wednesday it would be a mistake for Congress to fight for Hollywood-backed legislation on online piracy, because it is ineffective and fundamentally change how the Internet works, to approve.

Companion bills in the House and Senate would allow rights holders to credit card companies and online advertising businesses, including cutting off Google, Web sites around the distribution of pirated material force court. The prosecutors would be able to force a court order to search the pages are always.

The house is stop online piracy law the Senate IP Act by the Motion Picture Association of America, the Recording Industry Association of America and the American Chamber of Commerce, the cost of online piracy is estimated at $ 135 million one years support Protect. Internet giant Google, Yahoo, Facebook was against the law.

In response to a question after the meeting Wednesday at the University of Minnesota, Schmidt said there are an error for the bills would "approach to combat piracy. `` The problem with the two bills is that they go to the wrong problems ,''Schmidt said.

Schmidt said that certain provisions in the accounts technically difficult, including the holder the right to remove links from the Internet and the criminalization of the indexing of content by search engines now.

`` There are a lot of things involved in breaking the Internet and how it works,''he said.

Another big problem, he said, was that the bills do not work. He said the criminal activity to immediately move to different sites and on.

`` The right solution, we are told again and again to follow the money,''said Schmidt. `` So that it specifically prohibits this type of content is to earn, what we recommend.''

Finally, Schmidt said she violated the protected rights to free speech in the First Amendment. Senator Patrick Leahy, the Senate author of the bill disputed that in a statement from his office Wednesday afternoon.

`` There is no First Amendment right to steal,''he said. `` This (bill) to protect U.S. intellectual property rights, which in turn strengthens our economy and promotes American jobs.''

Sen. Amy Klobuchar has a separate bill, the federal government update the current copyright law would make clear that streaming can be prosecuted by copyright-protected material for commercial purposes a felony.

Klobuchar office not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday.

Schmidt spoke at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs University. The University is one of the biggest users of Google's free applications in the field of higher education in the United States, with more than 90,000 Gmail accounts.

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