Copyright used to be the sole domain of professional publishers. They were able to make laws with impunity because there was not a perception that they effected the public. Even today with international negotiations the content industry are considered the only "stakeholders".
In the internet age that narrow view of "stakeholder" no longer applies. We are all stakeholders now and our voice must be heard.
The people are taking to the streets due to the over-reach of rights-holders and governments that has shown a willingness to subornate human rights as well as freedom of speech to copyrights.
To suggest that the answer is for rights-holders to ratchet it up even further is only going to continue to inflame the public.
Instead of admitting their mistake they are now covering their tracks to make this look like it was not politically motivated. It isn't working.
If I was Al Green I would be incensed. For older artists having your music on Youtube is essential to keep your songs from being forgotten since the labels tend to dump old artists to make way for new music where profits are higher.
The people who have no receptors are the RIAA types who can sue a single mother for millions and sleep at night. There is a word for people like this. Sociopath.
DPI slows down networks and decreases bandwidth. The US already has the slowest bandwidth in the western world. DPI is overkill and would be akin to the post office reading every piece of mail to make sure no one is doing anything illegal.
It is interesting that the MPAA is touting these services when there is not one they did not try and sue out of existence upon their inception and even now keep them on an extremely tight leash and never allow them to reach their potential and constantly demand more licencing fees that render these services barely profitable.
Government Acting the Part of Drug Addict Enablers
It would be one thing if all this effort was actually helping Hollywood and the Music Industry but in reality all the government is doing is enabling those industries to continue in their self-destructive behavior.
Piracy is not Hollywood's problem. It is a symptom of their problem which is a fundamental and permanent problem with their business models. The government is acting in the same capacity as those that enable drug addicts. They may mean well but when you have industries that rely on government enforcement rather than meet the demands of consumers then neither they nor the government are serving them nor the public well.
Targeting someones political group is now racist? I know many on the left like to define racist so broadly you can drive a Mack Truck through it but this is ridiculous.
Lets say someone produces an algorithm that produces billions of different tunes? Would all those tunes be under copyright? That person could put any song written after that through a music camparator and if there are any matches could he sue for copyright infringement?
On the flip side could any existing songs that matches any of the tunes make the person liable for copyright infringement?
Obama has been more secretive than Bush and has denied more Freedom of Information requests than Bush. Obama also has classified more material that would not have been under previous administrations.
What members of Congress needs to do is pledge to vote against any TPP agreement if there is not more transparency. Let them know that if USTR insists on secrecy and keeping things away from Congress that all their work will be of not.
What is alarming about this case is it sets the stage for other countries to demand extradition of US citizens for breaking foreign laws for acts that are legal and even Constitutionally protected in the United States.
One thing that needs to change is to make it legal for incidental use of copyrighted works such as music in the background of videos or painting or artwork or trademarks etc that appear in images or video photos that are not the main focus of the work.
Sorry but patents are now more likely to crush small inventors than protect them. Patent trolls are the enemy of the small inventor. They steal ideas from other people by claiming one of their patents is infringing even though it is only vaguely similar. These trolls are extortionists that prey on inventors.
There is a long history of patents from the steam engine to the telephone to the airplane to the lightbulb that none of these things really took off until after their patents had expired and without exception development was hampered by the inventors who were more interested in asserting their patents than actually producing and improving their inventions.
This is what I like to see. Instead of victims just defending against patent attacks they move to invalidate the trolls patent all together. Every time a patent dies new innovation is born.
Too bad TiVo can no longer compete with other DVRs and now has to resort to patent trolling.
It appears this licencing company is guilty of fraud by requesting payment where they are not entitled and are simply making this request in hopes that some will comply being ignorant of the law.
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We Are ALL Stakeholders Now
In the internet age that narrow view of "stakeholder" no longer applies. We are all stakeholders now and our voice must be heard.
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Rights-Holders, Lets Ratchet It Up Even Further
To suggest that the answer is for rights-holders to ratchet it up even further is only going to continue to inflame the public.
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SonyBMG United States Phone Number.
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BMG Digs Deeper
If I was Al Green I would be incensed. For older artists having your music on Youtube is essential to keep your songs from being forgotten since the labels tend to dump old artists to make way for new music where profits are higher.
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Recording Industry Non-receptors.
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Government Acting the Part of Drug Addict Enablers
Piracy is not Hollywood's problem. It is a symptom of their problem which is a fundamental and permanent problem with their business models. The government is acting in the same capacity as those that enable drug addicts. They may mean well but when you have industries that rely on government enforcement rather than meet the demands of consumers then neither they nor the government are serving them nor the public well.
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Criticizing Political Groups is now Racist?
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Computer Generated Copyrights?
On the flip side could any existing songs that matches any of the tunes make the person liable for copyright infringement?
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http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/21/nation/la-na-ticket21-2010mar21
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Senators Should Pledge Now to Vote Against TPP
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Bad and dangerous precedent
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Incidental uses of copyrighted works
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Re: more dissembling
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Re: Take Their Patents
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Take Their Patents
Too bad TiVo can no longer compete with other DVRs and now has to resort to patent trolling.
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Licencing company guilty of fraud