I would love it if that happened, but unfortunately I don't honestly see it happening that way. What I predict will happen is that Warner Bros will end up just paying the money or stopping using the new tech, and the whole thing will get swept under the rug except for people like us who are generally rallying against them anyway. I see it happening this way because of the fact that you rarely if ever see the -AA mafia in the news in anything expect a reasonably positive light. If the public did find out about this though in a major way, it may help to loosen peoples negative opinions about pirates that have been spoon feed to them. So as I originally said, i would love to see that happen, but unfortunately I kinda doubt it will.

Unfortunately, it does seem like that is the case. I strongly agree with what you said. It seems like M$ is taking the approach that since Google is so much better at being a search engine than their Bing, they decided to try semi-shadaly to push the fact that more people use google which helps give them better results, even if this isn't true. I wish more people would stop taking the idea of "Hey X guys makes Y product well, so lets take Y, add our own spin to it, and sell it as something so much better" and in microsofts cause, find ways to complain about the original group X to help their product. But hey, i may be missing some major point and could be all wrong, its just my point of view on this.