Comments on: Gmail Terms of Service Apply to reCAPTCHA During Account Formation–Rojas-Lozano v. Google

Comments on: Gmail Terms of Service Apply to reCAPTCHA During Account Formation–Rojas-Lozano v. Google https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2015/08/gmail-terms-of-service-apply-to-recaptcha-during-account-formation-rojas-lozano-v-google.htm Sat, 12 Mar 2016 18:13:06 +0000 hourly 1 By: Theperkyone https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2015/08/gmail-terms-of-service-apply-to-recaptcha-during-account-formation-rojas-lozano-v-google.htm#comment-1376 Thu, 03 Sep 2015 21:20:00 +0000 http://blog.ericgoldman.org/?p=14792#comment-1376 My memory on this is hazy but it seems to me that I recall once upon a time in the early 2000s that this was the way that child pornography sites made their money. They would put up captcha and then require viewers to submit them multiple times before they could view images. Meanwhile behind the scenes the text was actually OCR text that the websites were getting paid to translate. I had thought this practice went away when law enforcement cracked down on those websites.

Shame on Google for bringing that back!

]]> By: John Gregory https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2015/08/gmail-terms-of-service-apply-to-recaptcha-during-account-formation-rojas-lozano-v-google.htm#comment-1367 Sat, 29 Aug 2015 18:48:00 +0000 http://blog.ericgoldman.org/?p=14792#comment-1367 I suppose contingency fees allow for such meritless claims to be advanced, on the remotest speculation that some court will fall for them, at least to the point that the defendants will buy their way out. But here – and the Yelp case – surely there has to be some kind of special relationship between the parties before an unjust enrichment claim can be made? ‘special’ meaning something more than the same relationship as about a billion other people have with Google…

I agree that the timing issue makes the case interesting enough to comment on, but the flimsiness of the claim is pretty impressive, that some law firm thought it was worth taking a flyer on. Were the lawyers the plaintiffs, so this was a spare-time (or underemployment) project?

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