Warner Sues Search Engine, Tests DMCA Safe Harbor

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Warner Bros. Records is suing SeeqPod, the music search engine, in an attempt to test the limits of the DMCA Safe Harbor provisions with a theory of contributory, vicarious and inducement liability. While other services like Last.fm have cut deals with the labels, SeeqPod relied on the DMCA Safe Harbor alone to protect it. According to the complaint [PDF] SeeqPod 'deliberately refrains' from adding simple yet ineffective content filters to screen out copyright infringing materials, presumably by not buying those filters from label-affiliated companies. Of course, this lawsuit is merely part of a recent trend seeking to move the responsibility for policing copyrights away from the copyright holders and on to third parties."

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Re:One less movie and one less CD sold to me!

[houghi]

Be shure ti not buy any products that have anything to do with WB. So nothing with Harry Potter, Batman, Superman, anything from Hamma-Barnera or Tom&Jerry.

Obviously do not use any of their afiliated cinema's and do not watch any of the DC comics related things on tv.

The website is talking about some 6600 feature films, 48000 television titles and 14000 animated titles.

And I am not even talking about Time Warner. And the other larger companies are just as bad.

In all honesty, it is either un-possible or you can not live a life as you do it now. So better give up entertainment all together. Just go to the local pub where some local band is playing. Leave the moment they stop and the recorded music is back on.

The problem is, is that we are not their only consumers. Kellogs and MacDonals are also and they buy their crap to 'give' it to us as pictures on a box, so we buy more of their crap.