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Music Industry Prepares to Sue Yahoo China
magicchex writes "According to their chairman, John Kennedy, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industries (IFPI) is preparing to sue Yahoo China unless negotiations are agreed upon which satisfy the IFPI. Yahoo China is the second most popular search engine in China, with the frontrunner, Baidu, already involved in an ongoing lawsuit brought by the IFPI. The BBC article is vague in its description of what exactly Yahoo China would be sued for, mentioning that it provides links to pirated music tracks but not explaining this any further other than a statement that 'a simple search on Yahoo China found mp3 files of recent releases for direct download within a few clicks.'"
you can't go sueing search engines because they contain links to links of pirated mp3s... thats just what a search engine does... it seems the only way to avoid this would be to manually go through every web page, download all the mp3s that you can get to and check that they are not pirated... of course if the were you'd get sued anyway...
*''I can't believe it's not a hyperlink.''
Because companies based in America have better lawyers?
That's seriously the only reason I can think of.
"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." - Tolkien
In fact, you could probably get to a site with direct downloads of pirated mp3s within 'a few clicks' from the IPFI's site. If this kind of justification is sufficient, maybe they should just sue the entire internet.
Because the are the largest, and are prone to cave into demands from other people perhaps?
Im sure that if they win this, and get some $ of it, they will start going after smaller fish ( that still have an international presence )
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Ya know, the world's turned upside down when China is sued by a "free world" organisation for having too much liberty on something...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Why does Yahoo China get the can for this?
Because Yahoo China has demonstrated that they're able and willing to filter search results, pass off user account information to anyone who asks, and generally behave like asshats. Which means they totally lose the "we're just an innocent little search engine, we can't filter our output, it'd be a major hardship" common-carrier type of defense.
That's probably not the reason, but it would be about what they deserve...
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Log in or piss off.
People have been making excuses for evil totalitarian regimes (attempting to prove that they are better in at least some respects) since time immemorial. Stop me if you've heard some of these before: "at least they make the trains run on time," "at least they provide free health-care," "at least they provide free education," "there is no famine over there," "the people seem to enjoy it; the leader got 99.9% in the last election." So now I guess we can add "at least it is easier to infringe on copyrights over there" to that list (assuming I'm grokking your post correctly).
This joke is getting rather lame; new material is definitely needed (preferably some that follows the law of conservation of energy). Besides, if "G. Washington" was alive today, he'd certainly be called a warmonger for his involvement in the French and Indian War, as well as the American Revolutionary War. As for "T. Jefferson," he was personally responsible for the First Barbary War, in which the warmongering US went to war against the peace-loving Muslim states of Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, so I don't think he'd be much liked by the contemporary American establishment either.
Uttering logically derived and empirically supported truths to the disciples of the orthodox establishment.
Who decides what the website should know? If you link to a website with a bunch of mp3's called My_Talk1.mp3, My_Talk2.mp3,
Seems like you could easily get into a situation where you rue that the only 20/20 vision you have is hindsight.
I'm just here to regulate Funkyness
Well, if Google succeeds in affecting this non-RIAA artist's livelihood by caving into the RIAA's demands to censor all MP3s, that doesn't exactly sound like kindness. But I guess that artist can get probably get a job doing something else, and the RIAA will have one less competitor to worry about.