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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: 3) by zim on Friday March 14 2014, @02:43PM

    by zim (1251) on Friday March 14 2014, @02:43PM (#16406)
    I want the media mafia to fuck right off with the whole being a bunch of douchebags.

    I want them to try selling me a product i want at a reasonable price and stop trying to tell me what i can do with stuff i bought.

    We all got wants... And i give as much of a fuck about the RIAAs wants that they do about mine.
    And i bet google feels the same way.
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