Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 26th Aug 2009 13:22 UTC
Not too long ago we had a semi-loss for The Pirate Bay in The Netherlands, which was convicted 'by default' because the defendants did not show up in court to plea their case. Today, The Netherlands once again saw a ruling in a high-profile piracy case, and again, there's a loss for the defendants. Update: Oh, and by the way - thought about putting some lyrics you like on your website or blog? Think again. We live in a crazy world, people.
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"The real parasites are people like the pirate bay who made over a million off the work of others"
TPB never made a profit on their site, all the money they made on advertisement went directly into site maintainance. In fact the other day it was ruled that the admins wouldn't be liable for the damages as they are broke.
I'm sorry, in this day and age publishers shouldn't own the material produced by the artists. At best they should be considered investors, at worst they should just be consultants. Yeah, the artist works on the music which he does not own.
None of the artists would object to lyrics being posted on websites because they know that the more people know and appreciate the lyrics, the better it would be for them. Publishers seek squeeze the maximum possible payoff for anything.
Seeking more draconian rules, longer copyright extensions etc. does not encourage people to side with them. It is sad that they could just reduce (not remove) piracy by simply giving people what they want i.e. downloadable tv shows, films and music and making it easy to consume.
It is sad that the whole experience of consuming media is easier from piracy than it is from any "legal" service in that I can place shift, time shift, media shift and content appears promptly.