RIAA: Google Doesn't Do Enough To Fight Piracy

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The RIAA's VP of Communications tweeted this link to an editorial claiming Google doesn't do enough to fight piracy. Is it just me or is that RIAA lady kinda hot?

Clearly the current process is not working. Google is routinely directing people to unlawful sources of content, which is clearly at odds with data that suggests most people rely on search engines to identify trusted websites at the top of search results. If Google truly doesn’t want its search results directing people to materials that violate copyright laws, more should be done to address this problem.
 
It's a good thing we have twitter, it allows holes like this to communicate from the kitchen.
 
Meh, RIAA should build their own search engine if they don't like google's.

I'd hit her like the Energizer bunny... I keep going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going..., stop *and breath... and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going...:)
 
Reasonable, But that wouldnt stop me from showing her what DRM really means from a conglomerate -> consumer standpoint
 
If Google truly doesn’t want its search results directing people to materials that violate copyright laws, more should be done to address this problem.

it doesnt take a genious to understand googles busines philosophy; it only takes someone who isnt a moron. unfortunately those types of people are few and far between at RIAA.

google isnt/shouldnt be concerned with how its search results relate to whatever set of laws exist in the part of the world where the search was done. googles main mission on search is relevance. if the results get the user the info they were looking for, google accomplishes its mission.

google is not here to police your results. if you searched for "music torrent", it will return music torrent websites. if it didnt, people would go to another search provider to get the information they want, and google would lose a user. google is not responsible for what a user decides to do with that link; google has no way of verifying what content on the web is or is not owned and by who; or what content is infringing. its black and white- if a search query matches a link according to some logic, display the link.

tampering with search results will lose them business. i would not use a search provider who i know filters results in such a way.
 
Why has it become Google's responsibility to be the internet police, judge and jury as to what content is 'illegal'? The RIAA is just looking for censorship and they can go to hell.
 
Fuck you RIAA.

Someone should make a movie titled that , I would rain cash all over it.
 
If there is a crime being committed then law enforcement should be handling it. It is not the job of Google or the RIAA to be doing it. Vigilantism is no more right for them than for anyone else. I don't care which of their employees pictures they post pictures of, they are getting away with greater crimes than they accuse others of.
 
any reasonable suggestions, or just there to be the tits life support system representative spouting meaningless bs? maybe implying google should be an riaa lapdog like the feds, so they can command them to take down legit domains and hold them hostage for months/years without explaination or consequence. sites that their own organisations send files to exploit for promotion, but are too stupid to keep track of.
 
Google needs to take its commitment to fight piracy more seriously by removing the limits on queries and take downs, by taking down multiple files of the same recording instead of just one when a “representative sample” of infringing files is provided to them, and by establishing meaningful repeat infringer policies.

Let me get this straight, if you send Google an example of an infringing file you expect them to look for more and take them all down? How are they to judge if the file they take down is infringing or legit? A blanket approach is never a good approach.

I understand why Google limits the takedown requests they can accept per day, if they didn't their business would stop being a search engine and become the enforcement arm for the RIAA and other copyright holders.
 
I don't see a reason why Google should honestly. First off, if they did filter searching like the RIAA wants then everyone would switch. If I wanna google PirateBay then I better find it. It would certainly be as if Google were shooting itself in the foot.

RIAA has a very antiquated way of seeing things. Clearly the world has moved past the idea of copyright. I'm not saying that content creators shouldn't get paid, but nobody wants to go to jail for something like sharing. We do it all the time. I buy a movie but I let my family watch it. I buy a game and I'll let friends borrow it. If I play my music loud then you'll hear it, whether you like it or not.

The only real way to fight copyright is to make a better product, cause fans will be more then happy to donate a lot more money then the asking price of the product. Hell, I'm ready to buy the Portal 2 lemon mug because that's how much I liked the game. You make something mediocre and substandard then yea it'll be pirated, and then quickly forgotten.
 
this RIAA lawsuit against google would be like the Highway Patrol suing car manufacturers for making vehicles capable of exceeding the speed limit.
 
this RIAA lawsuit against google would be like the Highway Patrol suing car manufacturers for making vehicles capable of exceeding the speed limit.

I think it's more like the car manufacturer's trying to write speeding tickets.
 
They want to keep trying to hurt us? Let's hurt them where it counts. Boycott buying any CD, DVD, BluRay, movie tickets, or concert tickets for the whole year of 2013. They'll listen to us then.
 
Its hilarious. The RIAA is constantly throwing their infantile bitchfits about needing SOMEONE to police the internet. Yet they clearly don't give enough of a damn to invest their own time and money into doing so themselves (or they realize the massive backlash that would erupt if somebody starting doing that, so they are specifically avoiding making themselves a target).
 
They are being intentionally disingenuous about this.

It can never be the responsibility of a indexing search function to prevent crime.

IMHO, Google ought to refuse take down notices.

What's next? Are they going to make map makers remove the location of known places to obtain pirated media from maps? Sorry, your street is not mapped anymore.

It's utterly ridiculous, and the fact that they are getting any traction with this at all makes me lose my faith in humanity.

It's just like for years they have been blaming the tool (various P2P services and networks) for piracy rather than the people conducting the piracy.

That would be like suing a maker of crowbars or bolt cutters because their tool was used in a burglary, and trying to hold them responsible for not stopping users from using their tools for crimes.

These people disgust me and anger me to no end. They go against everything we value as a free nation. I have never raised my hand against a woman in my life, and I am strongly against doing such things, but if I saw her, I'd be tempted to punch her in the face.
 
Meanwhile the RIAA still doesn't understand that an IP address is not the same thing as a social security number or even a name. :rolleyes:
 
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