Google's Ethic Cleansing

So 2010 is clearly Google's year of action. Beginning with their pledge to "review the feasibility of our business operations in China" due to - they say - "the theft of intellectual property from Google" (far be it from me to suggest that having only secured 29% of the available market, they're taking their ball and going home), they've now moved on to arbitrarily (the evidence suggests) shutting down blogger sites which - they say - illegally host mp3s.
Pretending that the internet is not going to be used as a means of disseminating downright appalling quality webrips of unreleased albums (as is often the case) suggests an absence of any sense of reality. It's one thing to issue warnings to a blogger regarding the content of his/her site but quite another to vaporise an entire blog in a fit of pique.
I'd first noticed this myself when a blog I subscribe to vanished overnight. You know you've been vaporised when Google tells you 'The blog you were looking for was not found.' Now there are terms and conditions regarding the use of blogger, but it seems that many of the blogs which have disappeared are now claiming that they were not in violation of the T & Cs because they had authorisation from the record companies to post the mp3s. This particular exchange - such as it is - highlights Google's apparent intransigence on the issue.
They repeatedly cite the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) and state that they - Google - would be the subject of copyright infringement if they did not remove the offending blogs. What seems to have happened in many cases is that blogs have fled en masse to WordPress and relaunched there. Interesting to see how WordPress handle that. Meanwhile back on Blogger, it's that China feeling.