RIAA Lawyer Complains DMCA May Need Revamp

the simurgh writes "The DMCA is just not providing the kind of protection against online piracy that Congress intended, RIAA lawyer Jennifer Pariser says. The judge in Universal Music Group's copyright suit against Veoh as well as the judge in EMI vs. MP3tunes.com issued similar findings. The courts have now determined the burden of policing the web for infringing materials is on the content owner and not the service provider. Content companies think it is unfair for them to be required to spend resources on scouring the Web when their pirated work helps service providers make money. What they complain about almost as much is that after they notify a service provider of an infringing song or movie clip and they're removed, new copies appear almost immediately. Basically they are complaining the the DMCA makes them responsible for policing their own content at their expense."

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Re:"responsible for policing their own content"

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More importantly why should people who do not infringe copyright be burdened by the costs of what is recognised as a civil infringement. The cost does not go to government, it gets shifted to everyone.

WTF, I go out and legally buy licence material and those ass hats now want me to pay for it copies that they guess might have been made, with evidence that would be laughed out of a criminal court.

This basically stinks of a real effort to create corporate censorship of the web. They want to block all content from the internet via the power of Government and brutish law enforcement, so that only major corporations can publish on the internet, just like the good old days of untroubled uncontested mass media lies on radio, television and the newspapers.