Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. Promoting and supporting censorship and blaming third parties for infringement is no way to run a business. Google correctly responded that Rosetta Stone's 'exaggeration doesn't belong in a serious conversation.' Of course, it really makes me wonder what the folks at Rosetta Stone are doing and thinking. 'Think of Google as the gateway for criminals into America as it's currently configured,' The company's CEO even made this absolutely ridiculous statement: However, it appears that Rosetta Stone actually would like the censorship law to go much further, specifically suggesting that COICA include making Google liable for any infringement found via the site. However, we noticed that Rosetta Stone was one of the companies that had signed a letter in support of COICA, and assumed it was just about trying to stop sites from offering unauthorized versions. Of course, like with nearly every other such lawsuit, Rosetta Stone lost badly in the district court, and the appeal is ongoing. Lately, the company has been on a tear trying to blame Google for the fact that some users are putting up AdWords on trademarked terms - sometimes pointing to unauthorized versions of Rosetta Stone's software. It's actually too bad, since I was recently looking for some language training software (if anyone has recommendations on decent competitors, please let me know).

Rosetta Stone seems to be working overtime to make sure I never buy its software.

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