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People buy Bottled Water (can't compete with free). And the bottled water companies don't need to give away their water to sell t-shirts.

Maybe you should try the copyright trolling business model. It seems to have worked well for Righthaven and Prenda. You too can be rich beyond your wildest delusional ravings!]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c229 Fri, 24 May 2013 08:04:33 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c229 Remember that every artist that publishes outwith their control is competition for their business. It is this competition that will kill them in the end as their sales will drop as more artists compete in the market outwith their control.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/10290323174/vod-service-acetrax-shuts-down-germany-customers-movies-are-lost-due-to-drm.shtml#c594 Fri, 24 May 2013 08:04:17 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/10290323174/vod-service-acetrax-shuts-down-germany-customers-movies-are-lost-due-to-drm.shtml#c594
Also, "programmers" are on the defensive in a battle badly tilted against them, mostly because their bosses choose to piss against the wind instead of turn around.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/15495123189/ron-paul-doesnt-win-ronpaulcom-is-guilty-reverse-domain-hijacking.shtml#c245 Fri, 24 May 2013 08:04:11 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/15495123189/ron-paul-doesnt-win-ronpaulcom-is-guilty-reverse-domain-hijacking.shtml#c245 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c187 Fri, 24 May 2013 08:03:14 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c187
convincing those in Congress will be harder than convincing these. there is little between them as far as common sense is concerned!

' It's claiming that the DMCA's safe harbors are broken and need to be fixed'

quite true. however, the fixing that is needed is so the DMCA does what it is supposed to do, not what the RIAA and other entertainment industries want it to do, and, in fact, try to make out that it does! the 20million take downs wont be enough for them if it was 200million. instead of keep getting sites, links and whatever else taken down, offering the same things from their own sites how customers want and keep asking for would be a better move. at least then they would be getting money in instead of keeping paying out! even with others paying bills for them they still have unnecessary outlays. ridiculous business plan!

as far as bogus take downs are concerned, 'do they not realize (or not care) what a massive chilling effect that would have on innovation?'

they realise alright! they just do not care! they have it in their heads that there is nothing as important in the whole, wide world as a music track or movie. everything else is purely incidental. if the other things didn't exist, it doesn't matter. if things that could/should be released are not, it doesn't matter! there is nothing more ridiculous and more self centered than an industry with this sort of attitude!]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/15495123189/ron-paul-doesnt-win-ronpaulcom-is-guilty-reverse-domain-hijacking.shtml#c224 Fri, 24 May 2013 08:02:50 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/15495123189/ron-paul-doesnt-win-ronpaulcom-is-guilty-reverse-domain-hijacking.shtml#c224
I really don't see how A) will lead to B(ii) - in fact I don't see how B(i) would lead to B(ii). Cutting spending and/or increasing tax, and reducing waste (including insane military spending and corporate boondoggles) would be much simpler.

If C) is true (I'm British so can't tell so well) then kudos to him - but one 'sane' idea in many 'insane' ones does not a desirable make.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c155 Fri, 24 May 2013 08:01:32 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c155 1. Google is not the only search engine
2. If they focused their efforts on the host, then ALL links, including search engine links would no longer matter

But they're too stupid to get it as their continued focus on Google demonstrates.

I never thought of what you said: Maybe their problem is the think Google is the whole internet.

But how did Google take over from America Online which used to be the whole internet?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c142 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:57:58 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c142 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c128 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:57:51 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c128
Be careful what you wish for.

Eliminate every single work of the RIAA from the internet. Every. Single. One. Because it might be infringing. And we can't be sure if it is authorized if the RIAA cannot even be sure it is authorized. And it might not be fair use.

If just anyone, anywhere can get content taken down from, say Amazon or iTunes, then that's great. The RIAA (and MPAA) seems to think it just fine that they can take down content that they do not own. Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

If the RIAA wants to have a penalty for using the DMCA to take down content the filer does not own, then that needs to work both ways -- and with real teeth.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c107 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:57:28 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c107 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c88 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:57:27 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c88 Rather that send notices to the sites with the allegedly infringing links they just whine to Google to delist them.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/15495123189/ron-paul-doesnt-win-ronpaulcom-is-guilty-reverse-domain-hijacking.shtml#c221 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:55:50 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/15495123189/ron-paul-doesnt-win-ronpaulcom-is-guilty-reverse-domain-hijacking.shtml#c221 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c75 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:55:22 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c75 Maybe layoff the "anti-piracy" team -- since clearly that's not working for you -- and hire a "new business model" or "innovation" team, and give them a shot to help your members.
Maybe hire Jonathon Coulton, Alex Day, or better still Psy to show the way.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c58 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:55:16 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c58 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c50 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:54:57 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c50 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c41 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:51:37 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c41
But you knew that.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c37 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:49:59 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c37
FTFY]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/11301723178/amazon-wants-to-sell-fan-fiction-with-it-originator-fanfic-author-all-sharing-profits.shtml#c613 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:49:04 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/11301723178/amazon-wants-to-sell-fan-fiction-with-it-originator-fanfic-author-all-sharing-profits.shtml#c613
a.k.a. a writer. She's saying that she writes for a living, but can't monetise one area of her writing due to copyright.

It's amazing that your zealous defence of the broken copyright system involves attacking people you claim to be protecting. You're actually attacking writers (and - assuming you're the same AC as other similar threads - games developers, musicians and filmmakers among others) who disagree with your obsession with infinite copyright. You're attacking content creators because they don't agree with the way that copyright has been twisted beyond recognition to support the income of those who won't adapt.

Incredible, but at least nobody's going to confuse you with someone with intellectual honesty and a fact-based argument.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/18225323199/president-obama-is-troubled-about-chilling-effects-his-own-administration-is-causing-to-journalism.shtml#c440 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:46:45 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/18225323199/president-obama-is-troubled-about-chilling-effects-his-own-administration-is-causing-to-journalism.shtml#c440 http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20110715/02212815101/verizon-tells-customer-to-get-lawyer-subpoena-to-get-itemized-bill.shtml#c1781 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:45:22 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20110715/02212815101/verizon-tells-customer-to-get-lawyer-subpoena-to-get-itemized-bill.shtml#c1781