RIAA President Says Copyright Law "Isn't Working"

Kilrah_il writes "Apperantly not satisfied with the current scope of the DMCA, RIAA President Cary Sherman wants to broaden the scope of the law to have content providers such as YouTube and Rapidshare liable for illegal content found on their sites. 'The RIAA would strongly prefer informal agreements inked with intermediaries ... We're working on [discussions with broadband providers], and we'd like to extend that kind of relationship — not just to ISPs, but [also to] search engines, payment processors, advertisers ... [But], if legislation is an appropriate way to facilitate that kind of cooperation, fine.' Notice the update at the end of the article pointing out that Sherman is seeking for voluntary agreements with said partners and not to enact broader laws without their cooperation."

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Re:What a coincidence

[odies]

While RIAA/MPAA is probably too far on the other side of view, you aren't really honest with yourself if you think theres no hoopholes with the current copyright law or if you think piracy isn't rampant. People obviously like to get all of this for free, but the content creators need to be paid too so they can continue making us those things.

How do you think game companies would continue to make games if everyone pirated them? It wouldn't be possible. We would currently have a lot more indie developers and small studios working on awesome games if people would buy the games instead of pirating them. Yes, not everyone would buy it, but it's still a significant amount. Normally people just get tired of waiting for the warez version and buy the game, or they buy the game if they want to play it online.

Creating quality content takes money. The more people pirate, the less there are quality products, because there is no money to make them.

I'll second that.

[HeckRuler]

Fuck the mafRIAA and their extorting goons.