Miss. Attorney General wants Google to do more to fight intellectual property violations

Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood is working to force Google to enact protections for intellectual property.

According to the Associated Press, Hood, intellectual property committee chair and president-elect of the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG), is wanting Google to work harder to remove illegally copied materials from their search engine.

"They're still not helping on music, movies, software," Hood said, even citing a case where someone bought fake contact lenses that damaged an eye.

Earlier this year, several attorneys general including Hood encouraged Google to modify their search engine to make it more difficult to find prescription drugs online. As part of the modification, Google removed autocomplete results related to such sites.

Hood and NAAG have gone after Google prior to these occasions, and with Hood leading the organization in the coming year, you can expect to see an even stronger emphasis on cybercrime beginning next June.