• Music industry to take on Google for indexing infringing content
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[url=http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100621/0236189885.shtml]Source 1 - TechDirt[/url] [url=http://torrentfreak.com/ifpi-wants-google-to-stop-linking-to-the-pirate-bay]Source 2 - Torrentfreak[/url] [quote]The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) is the UK’s main recording industry trade body. It represents many hundreds of companies but it’s most well known members are Warner, EMI, Sony and Universal. It is at the forefront of copyright enforcement and lobbying in Britain and was largely responsible for the dismantling of the famous OiNK BitTorrent tracker.[/quote] [quote]Sooner or later, it looks like we're going to get another legal showdown over whether or not it's legal for Google to just link to infringing material. When that case goes forward, it could be a defining moment in whether or not search engines, themselves, are actually legal. If BPI does sue -- and loses -- it could also open up some legal room for content specific search engines that aren't deemed infringing as well.[/quote] Yes, it seems the music business is set to aim its sights a little higher. If they win, the precedent they set will change the internet as we know it. If they lose, sites such as The Pirate Bay and IsoHunt will, as indexers, be legal to continue operating. Any predictions of the outcome? In my opinion, taking on something like Google can only end badly. Not just financially, but in terms of PR as well. The vast majority of the internet likes Google and dislikes the music industry.
Good luck lol
They're fucked. BPI, that is.
The recording industry is dying a slow and painful death :smug:
Book publishers have been doing this for ages. Google has been uploading books without consent for years. They're getting too big for their boots and need to be brought down a peg.
Going by the British though, they'll probably rule that google.co.uk stop indexing them
In this story everyone dies: BPI's collective wife, BPI's collective dog, BPI's collective sister, BPI's collective children, BPI's collective boss, BPI's collective love affair, even the guy that serves BPI in the supermarket If you fuck with Google they'll fuck you over.
[QUOTE=JLea;22796595]The recording industry is dying a slow and painful death :smug:[/QUOTE] This. And all suing this and suing that is just their last, desperate breaths.
[QUOTE=lazyguy;22796603]Book publishers have been doing this for ages. Google has been uploading books without consent for years. They're getting too big for their boots and need to be brought down a peg.[/QUOTE] How is google book search different than a library?
[QUOTE=Zeke129;22796747]How is google book search different than a library?[/QUOTE] libraries paid for thier books and can only have those out at th same time? But anyway the music industry needs to die. Artists make their money touring anyway.
[QUOTE=Kybalt;22796819]libraries paid for thier books and can only have those out at th same time? But anyway the music industry needs to die. Artists make their money touring anyway.[/QUOTE] This. And if they don't its becuase they can't really sing and everything in the song is done with software.
internet censorship anyone?
[QUOTE=Kybalt;22796819]libraries paid for thier books[/QUOTE] Libraries have most of their books donated by the public. Same with CDs and DVDs as well.
[quote]Sooner or later, it looks like we're going to get another legal showdown over whether or not it's legal for Google to just link to infringing material.[/quote] Maybe they should sue every single person in this planet because just by owning a computer that makes you a potential pirate... after all, we all have Internet access and unrestricted access to Google, [i]right[/i]? Please... :rolleyes: [editline]11:25AM[/editline] [QUOTE=Mindtwistah;22796624]And all suing this and suing that is just their last, desperate breaths.[/QUOTE] They're dead, they just don't know it yet
[QUOTE=lazyguy;22796603]Book publishers have been doing this for ages. Google has been uploading books without consent for years. They're getting too big for their boots and need to be brought down a peg.[/QUOTE] They're a search engine who doesn't censor shit. Deal with it. And in my opinion the music industry has gotten to big for their boots, and need to be cut down at the knees.
[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;22796920]Maybe they should sue every single person in this planet because just by owning a computer that makes you a potential pirate... after all, we all have Internet access and unrestricted access to Google, [i]right[/i]? Please... :rolleyes: [/QUOTE] You are breathing air molecules that were once breathed by Jack the Ripper, you horrible murderer
Google is for-profit and will put ads in.
Oh, Music industry. When will you learn you don't control the internet.
[QUOTE=lazyguy;22797002]Google is for-profit and will put ads in.[/QUOTE] Exactly, their profit isn't derived from copyright infringement. It's derived from ads.
[QUOTE=kenji;22796843]This. And if they don't its becuase they can't really sing and everything in the song is done with software.[/QUOTE] Or cause their fanbase in inherently small due to the sub culture they are part of :colbert:
The British Phonographic Industry? LOL
[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;22797104]The British Phonographic Industry? LOL[/QUOTE] I think you read phonographic as pornographic
[QUOTE=Zeke129;22796967]You are breathing air molecules that were once breathed by Jack the Ripper, you horrible murderer[/QUOTE] And you're using a computer with an Internet connection, something that 10 years ago gave birth to Napster! You potential THIEF! [editline]11:41AM[/editline] [QUOTE=Zeke129;22797120]I think you read phonographic as pornographic[/QUOTE] I did too :v:
[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;22797202]And you're using a computer with an Internet connection, something that 10 years ago gave birth to Napster! You potential THIEF! [/QUOTE] Your neighbour's router is transmitting songs through your body. You are facilitating copyright infringement!
It will be interesting to see the outcome of this, though knowing lawmakers and other idiots in power, google will lose this battle. :sax:
[QUOTE=Zeke129;22797254]Your neighbour's router is transmitting songs through your body. You are facilitating copyright infringement![/QUOTE] In that case, I'm really screwed v:v:v
[QUOTE=JLea;22796595]The recording industry is dying a slow and painful death :smug:[/QUOTE] Good.
This is just like saying that we should ban roads because they can lead us to drug dealers
Nice try Music industry.
Since this is the BRITISH phonographic industry, is it safe to assume that whatever they do is not going to affect people elsewhere?
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