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The Australian Communications Minister is proposing "game changing" laws crack down on Piracy by forcing search engines such as Google to filter content results thereby removing the path people have to finding illegal content online.
[...] Under the proposed laws to be introduced to Parliament today, authorities will also be able to force search engines like Google to stop "unashamedly facilitating crime" by promoting pirate sites that allow internet users to illegally download music or films.
Graham Burke, chief executive of Australian film company Village Roadshow, last night hailed the new laws as game-changing for the industry while slamming Google for acting "as evil as Big Tobacco" in its online behaviour.
"We stand ready to be co-operative with Google. We see good Google and bad Google. But bad Google is as evil as Big Tobacco was 30 years ago. They know what they're doing. They know they're facilitating and enabling crime and it's time for them to clean their act up," he told News Corp.
He accused Google of "unashamedly facilitating crime" by taking people to criminal pirate websites.
Does the Australian government really need to give weapons to special interest groups to enforce civil laws the majority of people do not support?
(Score: 3, Informative) by vux984 on Friday October 19 2018, @11:53PM
"As someone who "creates" I certainly don't want people taking my work without paying for it."
The work is in the creative effort of producing the original, not in the production of copies which self-evidently don't require any "work" (click a button and boom you have a copy... or 100... or 100 million...how much money is clicking a button worth?)
You appear to want to do the hard part (for free?) once, and then charge people for the part that that requires no work many times over. Would you like a unicorn with that?
In the past, this model worked because the reproduction effort itself took enough time and effort to create a reasonable obstacle and you could subsidize your creative effort with small surcharge over the actual reproduction cost. But as the reproduction cost and effort slid to zero, the model stops working. And you're just pissing in the wind if you think stamping around demanding the universe work the way you want it to is going to help.
The obvious solution to your conundrum is to withold the effort of producing the work, or at least the fruits of that work until you've been compensated for it. If you are a photographer, bill for your time doing the shoot.
I, for example, have written software. I got paid to write it. My work can't be taken from me because I don't do it in the first place without an upfront agreement to get paid a satisfactory amount. Once the software is written i don't really care who uses it, or if they copy it, or how many times, because I ALREADY got paid.
I don't know offhand what you create, whether its artwork, or photos, or music, or software, but in each case the solution is to adapt your business model to the universe rather than the other way around.