Copyright Industry Calls For Broad Search Engine Controls 421
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from the y'know-voluntary-like-taxes dept.
from the y'know-voluntary-like-taxes dept.
The copyright battles going on right now are not all about SOPA, PIPA, or even the wider-reaching ACTA: suraj.sun snips thus from TorrentFreak: "At a behind-closed-doors meeting facilitated by the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport, copyright holders have handed out a list of demands to Google, Bing and Yahoo. To curb the growing piracy problem, Hollywood and the major music labels want the search engines to de-list popular filesharing sites such as The Pirate Bay, and give higher ranking to authorized sites. ... If the copyright industry had their way, Google and other search engines would no longer link to sites such as The Pirate Bay and isoHunt. In a detailed proposal handed out during a meeting with Google, Yahoo and Bing, various copyright holders made their demands clear. The document, which describes a government-overlooked 'Voluntary Code of Practice' for search engines, was not intended for public consumption but the Open Rights Group obtained it through a Freedom of Information (FOI) request."
They always have the option (devil's advocacy) (Score:1, Funny)
Plenty of pirates only pirate because they have no legal option to acquire the content.
They always have the option to move to a country where the works are published lawfully.
Sometimes its available on a streaming service but the streaming service has DRM (or restrictions) that means they cant watch it on a mobile device or on a TV.
They always have the option to buy the appropriate brand of computer or game console and watch it on that. And since when has a PC been able to tell whether its VGA, DVI, or HDMI output is headed to a "TV" as opposed to a "computer monitor"?
Or maybe its a sporting event they want to watch but cant because its blacked out on their local station.
They always have the option to buy tickets to watch the game in person.
at a reasonable price
What is reasonable to you is not always reasonable to the work's author.