If EMI is proven to have willfully withheld information during that part of the trial, the ruling should be appealed or vacated.
It is kind of insane that they would turn around and sue someone based on promoting songs that they themselves had paid a 3rd party to promote using viral marketing. I wish that the judge could just throw the whole thing out and tell EMI to grow up and quit acting like a toddler.
This kind of stuff has gotten beyond ridiculous. Maybe a law saying that any kind of take-down that was ruled frivolous or abusing fair use (such as a takedown on a review) should result in the studio losing copyright and trademarks on that show/movie for 20 years.
Honestly...when you're telling Google to take down your own website...that's insane.
Very interesting. Some creative people can do better when they're in contact with the fans. Others do better when they have less contact. I wonder if this study could be repeated to control for that. It would be interesting to see the results then.
Just because something is carefully targeted doesn't mean it's safe. And, just as antibodies and anti-virus companies learn from each new attack, so do those targeted. Having seen the constant war that MMOs are playing to keep hacks/dupes/stolen accounts down, I don't know if it's a wise idea to start unleashing computer viruses, no matter how carefully coded.
Going after 10,000 people is a little excessive. I could see him going after journalists who really should have known better and known to wait for confirmation before tweeting out things but 10,000 people is insane.
This really is awesome. This guy has earned my respect forever. Let's hope that more researchers do things like this so that diseases like cancer become nothing more than a bad memory.
I wonder about the intelligence among companies sometimes. I've worked in Marketing and no one in there wanted to use dummy fake positive reviews because they knew it would eventually be found out and that would give us worse PR than having no positive reviews.
Luckily, though, we generally got good reviews and those who were negative we were able to turn around with a little work.
It really is sad when a popular video that provides lots of free advertising for artists gets yanked because the studios aren't getting any money for it.
Seriously, why do non-commercial videos get treated as if they were major commercial endeavors backed by deep pockets? Whatever happened to fair use?
Sheesh. Why doesn't the DoJ just go ahead and declare itself the governing body of everything and every place on Earth if they're going to pull stuff like this? Can Congress or the President smack them around and get them to stop doing stupid things like going after companies that don't have a US presence?
I've never understood how anyone could want to work for free "just for the experience" or how any company in its right mind would want unpaid interns running about. After all, if you're too broke to pay interns, then you're a bad investment. If you're just too big a jerk to pay interns, then you're probably cooking the books in other ways and aren't trustworthy.
Research like this validates my belief that a sizable number of people who pirate something do so due to lack of legal availability of that song/show/movie/game.
Too bad that the **AAs seem bent on suing people who'd rather be legitimate customers than in adapting to the new reality.
I wonder if the New Zealand government will move to have the agents who seized the material extradited to New Zealand. I doubt the court or government would be able to bring charges against the FBI at large but perhaps it could bring them against the specific agents in this situation if the FBI continues to refuse to turn the data and servers back over.
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If EMI is proven to have willfully withheld information during that part of the trial, the ruling should be appealed or vacated.
It is kind of insane that they would turn around and sue someone based on promoting songs that they themselves had paid a 3rd party to promote using viral marketing. I wish that the judge could just throw the whole thing out and tell EMI to grow up and quit acting like a toddler.
Kelly
I expect that if the MPAA is feeling "generous" a whole 50 cents might make it to the artists.
This kind of stuff has gotten beyond ridiculous. Maybe a law saying that any kind of take-down that was ruled frivolous or abusing fair use (such as a takedown on a review) should result in the studio losing copyright and trademarks on that show/movie for 20 years.
Honestly...when you're telling Google to take down your own website...that's insane.
Very interesting. Some creative people can do better when they're in contact with the fans. Others do better when they have less contact. I wonder if this study could be repeated to control for that. It would be interesting to see the results then.
Wait. If you buy something and the money is taken from you but you don't get the product, isn't that theft?
If they fail to sue the people and just harass them for a settlement, isn't that barratary?
Just because something is carefully targeted doesn't mean it's safe. And, just as antibodies and anti-virus companies learn from each new attack, so do those targeted. Having seen the constant war that MMOs are playing to keep hacks/dupes/stolen accounts down, I don't know if it's a wise idea to start unleashing computer viruses, no matter how carefully coded.
Going after 10,000 people is a little excessive. I could see him going after journalists who really should have known better and known to wait for confirmation before tweeting out things but 10,000 people is insane.
This really is awesome. This guy has earned my respect forever. Let's hope that more researchers do things like this so that diseases like cancer become nothing more than a bad memory.
I wonder about the intelligence among companies sometimes. I've worked in Marketing and no one in there wanted to use dummy fake positive reviews because they knew it would eventually be found out and that would give us worse PR than having no positive reviews.
Luckily, though, we generally got good reviews and those who were negative we were able to turn around with a little work.
Well, what goes around comes around. Apple sues Samsung. Samsung raises its prices to pay for the litigation. In the end, the consumer gets the shaft.
It really is sad when a popular video that provides lots of free advertising for artists gets yanked because the studios aren't getting any money for it.
Seriously, why do non-commercial videos get treated as if they were major commercial endeavors backed by deep pockets? Whatever happened to fair use?
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One should hope so. Photography should never be a crime.
Sheesh. Why doesn't the DoJ just go ahead and declare itself the governing body of everything and every place on Earth if they're going to pull stuff like this? Can Congress or the President smack them around and get them to stop doing stupid things like going after companies that don't have a US presence?
I've never understood how anyone could want to work for free "just for the experience" or how any company in its right mind would want unpaid interns running about. After all, if you're too broke to pay interns, then you're a bad investment. If you're just too big a jerk to pay interns, then you're probably cooking the books in other ways and aren't trustworthy.
Research like this validates my belief that a sizable number of people who pirate something do so due to lack of legal availability of that song/show/movie/game.
Too bad that the **AAs seem bent on suing people who'd rather be legitimate customers than in adapting to the new reality.
I wonder if the New Zealand government will move to have the agents who seized the material extradited to New Zealand. I doubt the court or government would be able to bring charges against the FBI at large but perhaps it could bring them against the specific agents in this situation if the FBI continues to refuse to turn the data and servers back over.