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Music Industry Issues Take Down Notices to 50 Major Lyrics Sites
alphadogg writes "A music industry group is warning some 50 website that post song lyrics that they need to be licensed or face the music, possibly in the form of a lawsuit. The National Music Publishers Association said Monday that it sent take-down notices to what it claims are 50 websites that post lyrics to songs and generate ad revenue but may not be licensed to do so. The allegedly infringing sites were identified based on a complicated algorithm developed by a researcher at the University of Georgia."
The "complicated algorithm" (basis statistics using Excel and Google) is described in the NMPA's "Undesirable Lyric Website List." Anyone remember lyrics.ch?
It does stop them from making money. They are not able to sell the lyrics now even if they want to, because the lyrics are already available for free from another source. Love it or hate it, the take-downs are the right thing. I really appreciate the lyric sites as a customer of the music industry because I don't have another good way to get the lyrics but truth be told they are getting your eyes on someone else's content and selling them to advertisers. They are leeches.
Whether right or wrong, it's their prerogative. Some people want the source code to OS X or Windows or nVidia drivers... does not mean that those companies have to provide it.
But, the CEO is the person who decides what crimes the company can get away with, is responsible for making sure those crimes are profitable for themselves, and don't result in prosecution or loss of status/power for them or their cronies. They are the shitbags who ultimately screw over every single person reading slashdot through weakening the position of employees everywhere. If its a publicly traded company you can add on the massive burdens of bribing corporation-friendly regulators, shareholders and the media.
Most CEO's I've seen work really hard to further their own goals at the expense of literally everyone else (especially working people such as demachina), I doubt I'd want the job. They usually have to use company funds for personal events, they have to delegate all real work to underlings, they carry huge chips on their shoulders and react explosively to any perceived threat against their ability to control everyone most of the time.
You seriously need to spend a week BEING a career criminal, so we can all see how horrible you would be at it, and then maybe you would stop running your mouth spewing nonsense.
(No really, fuck you for siding with the enemy).