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You totally got the point of my post and my experiment! I created the experiment after reading one of my friends' reaction to the Filesonic decision about stopp
by botolo 15y ago
You totally got the point of my post and my experiment! I created the experiment after reading one of my friends' reaction to the Filesonic decision about stopping file sharing. He posted on his Facebook account that this was the end of piracy. But as Pash correctly states, as long as content is digital, it's just a bunch of ones and zeroes and the usenet experience teaches us that any file could be easily translated in words and posted anywhere, including blogging platforms.
Using Twitter was just a provocative way of analyzing the issue, given that the experiment was deeply interesting also under the light of DMCA, as another user suggested. I was thinking what would happen if people started "infesting" legit websites such as Twitter or other blogging platforms with copyright protected content under the form of Mime64 messages or using any other encoding method which translates a file in text. While posting a link to a copyright protected file would justify a DMCA takedown notice, the problem would be bigger if the file would be hosted (under the form of Mime64 tweets) by the blogging platform itself.
Let's make it even more complex. What if tweets or blog posts would be posted randomly (not just by one user) and links to all these tweets or posts would be collected in a small document, something similar to a .nzb file? Could Twitter or any other blogging platform refuse a DMCA takedown notice for messages which are harmless by themselves and which are a violation of a copyrighted work only if collected together following the list of files contained in the .nzb-look-a-like file (which may be hosted somewhere else)? This would be a general counsel's nightmare.
In conclusion, the fight against piracy is the classic mouse-cat fight...piracy will never die and the only way to bypass this is to come up with a new business model for content providers and copyright holders.
I know that Paul Graham recently launched the idea of "killing Hollywood" by creating a new business model for content distribution. I think this idea should even be broader and should be about "how to kill piracy" by removing the fundamentals of pirates (which is, I think, sharing, avoid paying premium prices, etc.) by creating a new business model or method for content delivery and fee collection for content utilization.
Thanks everyone for the great comments that you posted so far.
- icebraining 15y agoCould Twitter or any other blogging platform refuse a DMCA takedown notice for messages which are harmless by themselves and which are a violation of a copyrighted work only if collected together following the list of files contained in the .nzb-look-a-like file (which may be hosted somewhere else)? Sure they could, the tweets would still have the work's colour[1]. [1]: http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23 http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23