[ajross]

If MS truly felt they were losing money, they'd shut down the links. Bing links are, for obvious reasons, much easier to shut down than Google links. But they didn't. You can do the rest of the computation.

[clarky07]

Never attribute to malice that which can easily be explained by incompetence.

[rbanffy]

It's much easier to do when the incompetence is not this selective.

[cooldeal]

Are you folks seriously insinuating that MS purposely keep Windows and XBox warez links in Bing to compete against Google?

[kenrikm]

No, actually I was poking fun at what is clearly a case of Big Co incompetence. They are throwing stones from a glass house.

[duaneb]

More likely the legal team just forgot that Bing exists.

[cpeterso]

If MS removed those links from Bing, then people might complain that MS is selectively altering search results for its own benefit. (I'm only half-joking.)

[recoiledsnake]

So why are they then contracting out the takedown notices to a third party which must be charging them a whole bunch for sending notices for hundreds of thousands of links? Just to make Bing better and Google worse for 0.01% of popular illegal downloads? Again, does not compute.