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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: 1) by MrNemesis on Friday March 14 2014, @04:31PM

    by MrNemesis (1582) on Friday March 14 2014, @04:31PM (#16492)

    RIAA clearly wants google to become the internet police. Well, maybe not google necessarily, but someone has to be.

    Perhaps google can shift to a whitelist model instead of a blacklist - every page they spider should be sent to the RIAA for vetting before it makes its way into the publicly available search index. This would have the colossal advantage that consumers would only be able to access the right kind of information, something that search engines are meant to do in the first place - the introduction of content whitelisting, combined with the neutralisation of connections that accept incoming connections, will effectively render obsolete peer-to-peer until it becomes impossible to conceptualise.

    It's a win-win all round.

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