Is this Big Media's quick and dirty SEO plan? Google already de-lists & penalize sites for violations / DMCA. So the movie / music companies can't get their junk through to the government (SOPA and the like), so they attempt to bully the search engines themselves.
If the copyright industry had their way, Google and other search engines would no longer link to sites such as The Pirate Bay and isoHunt. In a detailed proposal handed out during a meeting with Google, Yahoo and Bing, various copyright holders made their demands clear.
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At a behind-closed-doors meeting facilitated by the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport, copyright holders have handed out a list of demands to Google, Bing and Yahoo. To curb the growing pirac…
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A smell a great movie about all this. Closed doors, threats….this is good stuff.
I can't remember where I saw the infographic now, I think it was The Onion — but they don't lose that much from pirating and in fact the movie industry has only grown exponentially in the past twenty years.
Congress and Studio heads are just hidebound crotchety old men with no vision. What else is new :/
Produce good content and price it reasonably and people WILL buy it – not pirate it. I can rent a half decent movie from Redbox in about 3 minutes while at my grocery store. Why would I take 1/2 my afternoon to torrent it? Same with songs. $0.99 and 45 seconds to download is worth my time for a song I want.
I have worked on the inside of a large music company. They money they WASTE on a daily basis could feed all the starving kids in the USA for a month. They have their priorities backwards.
(I made those stats up – but you get my point…)
Your first sentence says a lot the rest is their greed to fill those deep pockets of their's.
+Lynette Young I own 1000 DVDs (slightly under now after the last garage sale) that I PAID for. I've had students that asked me why I didn't just get them from Limewire or torrent them and my answer is similar to yours. First I have to go find it, then I have to download it, check it out to see if it's not just some guy sitting in the theater with a camera, make sure the encoding is good then I have to store it. If I store it I have to have some sort of streaming device plugged into the TV or I have to burn the disk to a DVD (which I have to pay for). Now if I find and steal 3 DVDs a day it would take me a year to get my collection. I paid about $6 per DVD new and if it took say one hour to steal and burn three DVDs then I'm paying myself $18/hr. I haven't worked for that kind of money in 15 years!
Buying DVDs from the Walmart bin, or two for one deals or from Hollywood Video is CHEAPER than stealing them! The Music/Movie industry has to get this figured out at some point. My feeling is that they (and we) know they're all going to perish. What good is a music label anymore? An artist can rent a recording studio and pay a promoter and keep much more of the money. For movies it's tougher because of the amount of money involved in creating movies but still times are changing. They either change or they perish.
+Lynette Young I have worked on the inside of a large music company.
Oh. I'm sorry.
But as I've said before, the issue here is not the money, per se. It's about control of distribution. If they were only concerned about making money they'd have been perfectly happy with the take from iTunes. They should be happy with that: how many corporations, large and small, would cheerfully eradicate the entire population of a small Latin American country for that kind of profit margin? But they're not happy, not at all, and are doing whatever they can to try and break Apple's lock on the U.S. music market. That's true even though, if they succeed, it will cost them money.
Of course, what you have here is a cabal of sociopaths who are beholden to a company that was, until recently, run by an even bigger sociopath. At least that one had some vision.
Movies are one thing, tv shows are another. Since the networks still can't get the streaming thing totally right, that is another source of piracy. It would be awesome if I could buy or rent each episode of an HBO show the day after it first aired – instead of paying for HBO on a monthly basis. Especially if the only thing I am going to watch from HBO is that show. It is crazy they think they have to make money with that monthly fee when they'd probably make far more from episode rentals and sales. I know there is a ton of piracy going on with the premium channel shows.
What they're saying is they can't get the SEO right and promote to where the search engines will naturally rank them higher.
I've worked in the media ( TV & Radio ) for 31 years and understand copyright and the desires for corporations and artists to defend their incomes .. but the legislation currently being proposed by industry sponsors both sides of the pond is stupidly close to censorship of the whole internet.
I've been saying this for nigh unto thirty years, but perhaps now people are beginning to understand. These are not, in spite of metric fucktons of rhetoric and superheated hot air, ordinary businesses deserving of our consideration. They are criminal gangs who do not care what damage they do, or who they hurt. They need to be stamped out. The market will ultimately do that anyway, it's what happens during the interim that concerns me.