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Not necessarily. If this situation goes viral and leads to an overall increase in piracy, someone at RIAA will have to answer for it.
by bogwog 6y ago
Not necessarily. If this situation goes viral and leads to an overall increase in piracy, someone at RIAA will have to answer for it.
- corobo 6y agoThe question being "Hooray, we can bill our clients more. Piracy is back! Who's name is going on this bonus here then?"
- toomuchtodo 6y agoHow do you optimize to maximize billing while minimizing effective takedowns? If I recall, you could host youtube-dl like repos in the Netherlands and Turkey on VMs running hosted git, and they'd be out of reach of the copyright cartel.
- DJHenk 6y agoThat is not hard, as the actions are fueled by greed and depend on spreading fear. It has nothing to do with rational thinking. At least not in the way an average consumer would assume. Copyright cartels live by bullying. It is not important how much of the takedowns are actually effective, as long as they get to dominate the news with their lawsuits. Because only that will already deter al lot of people. Just drag everything on forever and have an occasional success that you can trump on every news channel. That is enough to spread fear. And that works also in other countries, like The Netherlands, because they will have some representative organization there (Brein, in this case) that is happy to take on the role of the bully for a small amount of cash.
- vagrantJin 6y ago> Because only that will already deter alot of people. Thing about software is it doesn't need a lot of people. Just a handful.
- Nasrudith 6y agoI would go further and call them a "Hypnosis Apartment" - they only "work" when the client believes they work the actual realities are irrelevant. Even if they actually stopped all piracy if their clients believed it was because they designed a majestic new American Flag their cartel goes crumbling down.
- dmitriid 6y agoNapster was viral. oink.cd was viral. PopcornTime is viral. The Pirate Bay was/is viral. RIAA doesn't care. Their main business is extortion racket. And it's extremely lucrative. And it's extortion on all sides. They extort money from DMCA and copyright lawsuits. They extort money from artists. They extort money from music services.
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoAs long as they act they will be fine. Github will be more at risk, since they are legally responsible for content hosted on their site. They have some protections under the DMCA, but only if they respond to takedown requests in a timely manner. And those takedown requests take time and effort to process. The RIAA and other copyright holder representatives have automated submitting a DMCA takedown request process ages ago, and now submit thousands a day to e.g. youtube. Youtube in turn has automated taking down content that receives said requests and probably a big part of the appeal process as well. Is Github that far already?
- _aleph2c_ 6y agoMicrosoft is playing a different game than YouTube/Google. Microsoft bought Github for 7.5 billion dollars. Github is a website wrapping a git-server; you know Microsoft could have built their own for a lot less money. The didn't buy the technology, they bought a network, its data and a brand. They are trying to improve their reputation with the open source community. It's really hard to measure such a thing, but this RIAA take down reduced developer trust. If Microsoft chose to fight a legal battle, win or lose they would win on their branding front. They would signal that they are defending open source.
- TheDesolate0 6y agomicrosoft is a tad bigger than the riaa.
- colejohnson66 6y agoIs the RIAA actually sending DMCA takedowns? Or are they just doing ContentID claims? The former of which puts a strike on your account and can be appealed in the courts while the latter is entirely Google’s doing and you’re at the mercy of their appeals process.