Who even downloads music via bittorrent any more?Īnd it's been reencoded at least twice since it was made. I don't think anyone would be able to scare up even a Vegas bookmaker willing to set odds of that trifecta ever coming in. To achieve this, however, the RIAA would 1st need to obtain a sense of propriety, a sense of proportionality & a sense of humor. "into conceding that the copyright infringement battle has not been won, but that it has assumed a comedic profile of epic proportions!" I'd suggest that that steps be taken which would shame the RIAA. Partially because my post wasn't even about TV shows or movies, the only context in which it even makes sense, and partially because you have no data to back it up.īut while we're bringing up irrelevant stuff I'd recommend doing a little research on mobile game piracy rates if you really believe piracy is not an issue. No, it is not a 'bad thing' because most 'piracy' is people getting things that they have no ability to pay for anyway, timeshifting things that they have already paid for via Cable/Satellite TV memberships, etc. It's just that the RIAA has never had anything remotely resembling a reasonable stance on how to deal with it. Taking it out now and adopting a more reasoned approach could have some nasty PR consequences for them. The RIAA has been very publicly putting its foot in its mouth for a long time. It's not even about protecting their profits anymore. That's what makes this whole thing so sick. They are probably even smart enough not to believe most of their own bullshit.
They have no interest in preserving anyone's freedom. after the failures of the **AA's they still think they can manage to do it with technology and succeed where so many have failed so often before. This is a company founded on the idea that if you pay them enough they can stop copyright infringement. DtecNet is a subdivision of MarkMonitor which is a company making serious bank on the imaginary war against piracy. Tracking is provided by DtecNet, you all remember DtecNet they are the braintrust who demanded Google delist many pages on HBO.com for having violated the copyrights of HBO and other amazing blunders. Rightscorp and CEGTek (IIRC) send DMCA notices with settlement agreements contained within them, this is an abuse of the DMCA notice provision and IIRC Comcast started snipping that part out of Rightscorp notices.Ħ Strikes is not a legal system, it is corporations making their own quasilegal system to act as Judge, Jury, Executioner based on evidence that would never hold up in court. How does it require internet termination?Ħ Strikes notices are not DMCA notices, despite them wanting them to be. Wait, what? The DMCA predates Six Strikes. Or have the ability to arrest anyone who agitates too hard for reducing copyright terms.īut the Digital Millennium Copyright Act requires ISPs to terminate services for repeat offenders.
Or put ads on Youtube videos they had no hand in creating, so they can profit from other people's work. But, much like the war on drugs, where stopping drug use is not the real goal, stopping piracy isn't the intent, but getting Kinects to make people who don't know how to pirate pay extra if they have too many friends over is.
They can try all they want, but just like the war on drugs, this "war" they are waging can never be won without taking away most of our freedom and privacy. All these things are currently legal and even if laws were passed forbidding it, you could not enforce such laws with severely limiting a person's, everyone's, freedoms as they are currently encoded into the constitutions of most western nations. There are tons of ways to share and get content, without paying a single penny to the creators or rightsholders, if one so chooses. What I'm referring to is the fact that they can't stop people from copying other people's music collection, sharing their DVD/blueray collection, going to the library or inviting all their friends over to watch the New release they just bought or borrowed off someone else. Limiting freedom is a goal, not an unintended side effect. What I want to know is when will the RIAA concede that the war can't be "won" without severely limiting people's freedom