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RIAA CEO Wants Google to Stop 'Whack-A-Mole'

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: 2, Interesting) by koreanbabykilla on Friday March 14 2014, @02:44PM

    by koreanbabykilla (968) on Friday March 14 2014, @02:44PM (#16407)

    I didnt even know this was a thing anymore. Using a search engine to find shit to pirate has been a horrible way to do it since the early 90s. Maybe its just a big circle and everyone will be using leech accounts on FTP servers again soon.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 14 2014, @05:06PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 14 2014, @05:06PM (#16513)

    leech accounts on FTP servers again soon

    It's 2014, I hope they're at least using SFTP.

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 14 2014, @05:39PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 14 2014, @05:39PM (#16526)

    So, what would be the preferred way? Torrent search sites are terrible for obscure shows or anyone with special needs (such as subtitles, or a different language, or both); and closed-door forums are by their own nature limited to host a small subset of popular or subject-specific content. Is there another way I'm missing?

    For all the malware-ridden, insert-your-phone-number pages found through a search engine, at least you have the indexing and filtering power of Google's engine, and a well refined search can find the desired payload. Heck, sometimes the RIAA shutdown notice is the best way to find a working URL among an ocean of crappy results.

  • (Score: 1) by Chromodynamics on Friday March 14 2014, @06:00PM

    by Chromodynamics (1789) on Friday March 14 2014, @06:00PM (#16537)

    Average people. These people don't download shows or movies. They look for streaming sites. The low quality is perfectly acceptable to them. I see this stuff being shared on facebook often.

    • (Score: 1) by koreanbabykilla on Friday March 14 2014, @06:34PM

      by koreanbabykilla (968) on Friday March 14 2014, @06:34PM (#16559)

      I swear I thought average people just bought music now. crazy.

  • (Score: 1) by bgm on Saturday March 15 2014, @01:20AM

    by bgm (3615) on Saturday March 15 2014, @01:20AM (#16714) Homepage

    Google caches magnet links, making it a rather decent TPB mirror, with a better search engine than TPB.