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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."
A music industry source estimated that such charges could add up to several million dollars a year.
Which, unfortunately, would be something, but better than they deserve.
What do you think, sirs?
....and the article don't match. According to the article which I ::gasp:: read, Google is, in general, developing several APIs for direct access to the engine without scraping. Of the three mentioned, one of those options would work for the kind of searches the RIAA wants to do. Google politely pointed this out to the *AAs, but also pointed out they charge a fee for the queries - which, as the article says, could cost the *AAs a very large amount of money if they decided to use the API.
"goodbye and hello, as always" ~Prince Corwin, from Zelazny's Amber series
Anything starting with "httarrh//".
RTFA -- They are offering labels the same terms as anyone else. If you want to run a bot against the search API, it costs you $5/1k queries. What you are doing with it and who you are doesn't matter.
The labels are angry because they don't get a service (which costs Google money) for free.