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posted by LaminatorX on Friday March 14 2014, @01:35PM   Printer-friendly
from the blather-rinse-repeat dept.

Fluffeh writes:

"In a written statement to a House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on the DMCA takedown system, RIAA CEO Cary Sherman informed lawmakers about the ongoing struggle against online piracy. 'All those links to infringing music files that were automatically repopulated by each pirate site after today's takedown will be re-indexed and appear in search results tomorrow. Every day we have to send new notices to take down the very same links to illegal content we took down the day before. It's like Groundhog Day for takedowns,' Sherman says.

Google, however, clearly disagrees with the RIAA, Katherine Oyama, Google's Senior Copyright Policy Counsel said 'The best way to battle piracy is with better, more convenient, legitimate alternatives to piracy, as services ranging from Netflix to Spotify to iTunes have demonstrated. The right combination of price, convenience, and inventory will do far more to reduce piracy than enforcement can.'"

 
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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by Vanderhoth on Friday March 14 2014, @01:51PM

    by Vanderhoth (61) on Friday March 14 2014, @01:51PM (#16365)

    The best way to battle piracy is with better, more convenient, legitimate alternatives to piracy, as services ranging from Netflix to Spotify to iTunes have demonstrated. The right combination of price, convenience, and inventory will do far more to reduce piracy than enforcement can

    I can totally attest to that. I haven't bought PC games for over 15 years, well before I entered University. Steam on Linux and I've spent more than $500 last year alone. Napster was hot when I was just graduating high school, but now I buy most of my music on line.

    You know what I do pirate?

    • Stuff I can't get in my region, or
    • Stuff that I want, but I'm not sure is going to work because of some DRM, or
    • Stuff I bought already, but doesn't work because of a DRM, or
    • Stuff I don't even use/watch, but pirate just to piss off companies that have extremely bad consumer practices.

    .

    If I can get it on Netflix, or buy it on Steam or get it from Amazon/KOBO DRM free, that's what I do.

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  • (Score: 1) by G-forze on Friday March 14 2014, @02:05PM

    by G-forze (1276) on Friday March 14 2014, @02:05PM (#16379)

    A thousand times this. You could have been describing my situation, with the exception that I don't buy much music anymore, because I don't want to support the corrupt MAFIAA. If I buy, it's from indie bands not belonging to those organizations. Otherwise, I simply don't listen to the music.

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    • (Score: 5, Informative) by mhajicek on Friday March 14 2014, @03:01PM

      by mhajicek (51) on Friday March 14 2014, @03:01PM (#16414)

      I buy music from mp3million, because their prices are reasonable and the files are DRM free. I buy games from Humble Bundle and Steam.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 15 2014, @03:38AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 15 2014, @03:38AM (#16739)

        I second the HumbleBundle approach. Just wish that they would stop putting up bundles requiring Steam or *shudder* Origin and get back to their roots - DRM free files

        Am now waiting for lots of pdf, epub and games to add to my HB library. They rock. It is the right way to do it.

    • (Score: 5, Interesting) by wantkitteh on Friday March 14 2014, @03:17PM

      by wantkitteh (3362) on Friday March 14 2014, @03:17PM (#16429) Homepage Journal

      The music industry survives despite the MAFIAA, not because of it.

      My recent musical preferences have led me back to Drum and Bass. A workmate of mine pointed me towards Bassdrive.com and it's huge archive of free-to-download DJ sets in MP3 format. Although all the music is available through record labels, the producers in the community prefer to use the specialist labels and couldn't give a crap if DJs freely redistribute their work, just as long as it's mixed into their sets (thus preventing it's reuse by others) and they get the credit they deserve.

  • (Score: 1) by Mr_Flibble on Friday March 14 2014, @07:35PM

    by Mr_Flibble (286) on Friday March 14 2014, @07:35PM (#16593)

    I used to buy a fair amount of music maybe £100 worth a month, I didn't download much, I usually listened to something online then bought the album sometimes all their albums.
    Now I don't download anything, I also no longer buy music.
    I stopped when the recording industry started being asshats.
    That was many years ago at a rough guess due to their actions they have lost several thousand pounds of sales.

    I suspect using riaa logic these lost sales are down to piracy.

    If everyone just avoided anything to do with the riaa it would be highly amusing to watch.

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  • (Score: 1) by Nobuddy on Saturday March 15 2014, @02:40AM

    by Nobuddy (1626) on Saturday March 15 2014, @02:40AM (#16728)

    If I buy a game that is not Steam native, I immediately download the cracked version because I know it will run better. In some cases, it will run at all... I had zero to shit internet while I was contracting in Afghanistan. Always-online game were a bane to me (Batman Arkham games for Windows Live, anyone?). Even though I paid for them I had to run the pirated version to reliably use them. And they ran a hell of a lot smoother to boot.

    Sneakernet piracy - have family download the files, put them on a USB stick and mail them to me. A 1Gb download took a week or more over there. i wished for dialup speeds, and DSL speeds were a pipe dream.