2009-04-27, 04:21 PM
Forte Wrote:The music industry is being hurt badly by the free distribution of music.
Yes, the internet damages the profit of newspapers. But it's okay. They adapted to follow suit. Yes, the internet damages profits for record companies. What do you think Pirate Bay was down for? They had to move ISPs and their servers because their former server got shut down. Is the music industry then suppressing freedom of "speech" as you put it?
In fact the ISP wasn't even sued in this case, they were told that CEF was performing illegal acts and took down the site in order to prevent legal action that could affect them. .
The 'recording industry' not the music industry is hurt because their monopoly on the distribution of plastic discs is becoming obsolete.
Say it with me now. Recording industry != music industry.
Oh and music artists do not need the recording industry as much as people think either. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/2009042...4566.shtml
And the internet isn't causing damage to newspapers, the distribution of news is just no longer controlled by them.
BTW, the piratebay is more of a specialized version of google to find torrents. You can do exactly the same thing with google if you know how to use it.
As such and the fact that the judge was on the same copyright reforms comittees as the prosecution members will lead to a mistrial/re-trial.
ON TOPIC:
LLoyd is just doing his job of sending nastygrams to anyone he feels may pose a threat to Nexon's business. The way it is supposed to work is for him to identify the infringing material and request it to be removed from the offending site. Hacking instructions and private server instructions are not in any way an infringement of copyright. (Did you see any such things published by Nexon?) Any violation of the ToS with Nexon is irrelevant to the DMCA process.
This isn't the first or the last time a company has abused the DMCA takedown process to get what they want when they should have gone the proper legal (and more costly) way.