Big Media Wants More Piracy Busting From Google

suraj.sun writes "Last month, executives from two music-industry trade groups, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), asked Google if it could provide a means to help them track down pirated material more efficiently. Typically, copyright owners are responsible for finding pirated links and alerting Google, which is required by law to quickly remove the links. But Google's response raised eyebrows at some of the labels. James Pond, a Google manager, wrote in a letter dated September 20, that Google would be happy to help — for a price."

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Re:Well duh

[mcgrew]

if nobody pays for something then the people who make that something are pretty quickly going to have to find something else to do for a living

The biggest word in the English language only has two letters. If pigs had big enough wings they'd fly. But the fact that has been demonstrated by study after study is that music pirates spend more money on music than non-pirates. Another fact is that nobody ever went broke and had to get a different job because of people pirating their work, while many, many artists have gone broke and had to find other work because of obscurity. I'm not likely to buy your book if I've never heard of you. I'd never have bought an Isaac Asimov book had I not read some for free from the public library, yet I have an entire shelf with nothing but Asimov.

If "nobody would buy art if they could get it free" than how did Cory Doctorow manage to get on the New York Times best seller list? Note you can download his latest book from that link, and all his books are available for free download as well.

In short, your "if anybody could get it for free nobody would buy it" is tripe. Utter bullshit. DAMNED LIES.