Big Media Wants More Piracy Busting From Google 186
suraj.sun writes "Last month, executives from two music-industry trade groups, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), asked Google if it could provide a means to help them track down pirated material more efficiently. Typically, copyright owners are responsible for finding pirated links and alerting Google, which is required by law to quickly remove the links. But Google's response raised eyebrows at some of the labels. James Pond, a Google manager, wrote in a letter dated September 20, that Google would be happy to help — for a price."
Re:Search is what they do (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Well duh (Score:2, Funny)
Is that why all open source software is considered evil by big companies?
Re:OK, question time (Score:5, Funny)
WTF is a pirated link?
Basically any Slashdot story.
Re:OK, question time (Score:3, Funny)
It's one of those shortened URLs that bypass the DRM of the original URL while containing the same content which is most likely illegal content.
Same pricing model as RIAA (Score:5, Funny)
'Raised eyebrows'? Maybe Google used RIAA's pricing model and asked for $10,000,000 per infringement.
Re:And the problem is? (Score:2, Funny)
Big Media Wants More Piracy Busting From Google (Score:3, Funny)
And I want a pony.
Re:Of course (Score:5, Funny)
That's a bargain, considering with each link they lose billions and billions of dollars.
Re:Big Media Wants More Piracy Busting From Google (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The summary... (Score:3, Funny)
According to the article which I ::gasp:: read, ....
Dude, you got out of breath typing?!
Re:Of course (Score:1, Funny)
Every time someone downloads a movie.. god kills a kitten. I just hope you guys know that. Think of all the cute little kittens.
Re:Of course (Score:5, Funny)
but... but... but they are used to getting what they want, at no charge (usually at the taxpayer's expense). They aren't used to paying for the protection of their outdated distribution-control based business model!
"I understand we charge a standard rate of $5 per thousand queries, which is charged to recover our costs in providing this service," Pond wrote.
A music industry source estimated that such charges could add up to several million dollars a year.
If you burn 5 million dollars, you get... [Dr.EvilVoice]ONE BILLION queries! [/Dr.EvilVoice]
HOLY CRAP! ARE YOU SERIOUS??? (Score:4, Funny)
Big Media Wants More Piracy Busting From Google
This just in:
Cigarette companies want to downplay the harmful effects of tobacco.
(Insert party here) wants more control over the senate.
Religious officials suggest being religious is good for you.
I'd file this one under the No Shit category.
Re:Of course (Score:3, Funny)
The price... (Score:5, Funny)
...was set at THEIR SOULS.
The record industry executives immediately pointed out that they HAVE no souls of their own, and would the company accept souls they had collected from musicians and filesharers? They were told in no uncertain terms that third party souls would NOT be accepted.
Re:Search is what they do (Score:3, Funny)
There are plugins that already do that.
If you want to find them, use Google.
Pond.. (Score:2, Funny)
.. James Pond