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... Stop us if we have all heard this one before. When will music publishers learn, suing gets you nowhere? I hope all ISP's band together and get behind Cox Co

... Stop us if we have all heard this one before. When will music publishers learn, suing gets you nowhere? I hope all ISP's band together and get behind Cox Communications on this one, suing an ISP just because a music publisher tells them that one of their customers might have infringed on their copyrights. While we are at it, lets sue car manufacturers for car crashes caused by drunk drivers and lets sue companies like HP for providing the computers that infringers are using to download pirated material? The madness just does not yet. The entertainment industry has far more overreach than it should. People getting their homes raided by SWAT teams because a publisher thought someone downloaded and shared a movie or music album. Your tax dollars hard at work, people.

venomsnake 12y ago
The problem is that there is convergence lately between content producers and ISP-s. The big labels and big ISP usually have enough shared ownership to not make them automatic adversaries.
boomlinde 12y ago
> When will music publishers learn, suing gets you nowhere? Maybe they will learn it when that is an indisputable fact. Suing does get them somewhere.
- psykovsky 12y ago
  Yes, it gets them to bankrupcy, from what I've read in the article.
  - Zuider 12y ago
    I don't think that they will go bankrupt. Rightscorp is a loss making shell company which remains in business due to regular 'donations' from copyright holders. Their remit is to engage in aggressive, quasi-legal practices intended to frighten people away from the sharing of copyright material without having the legal repercussions from using these tactics backfiring on the copyright holders themselves. While this lawsuit seems crazy and immoral, there is method in Rightscorp's apparent madness and badness, and it is certainly consistent with their other practices. This lawsuit will hit the news just like all their other antics, and create a general level of FUD that will induce people to think twice before they download copyright material, just in case they find themselves at the wrong end of a lawsuit that they cannot afford to defend.
  - boomlinde 12y ago
    Is Rightscorp a music publisher?

venomsnake 12y ago

The problem is that there is convergence lately between content producers and ISP-s. The big labels and big ISP usually have enough shared ownership to not make them automatic adversaries.

boomlinde 12y ago

> When will music publishers learn, suing gets you nowhere? Maybe they will learn it when that is an indisputable fact. Suing does get them somewhere.

psykovsky 12y ago
Yes, it gets them to bankrupcy, from what I've read in the article.
- Zuider 12y ago
  I don't think that they will go bankrupt. Rightscorp is a loss making shell company which remains in business due to regular 'donations' from copyright holders. Their remit is to engage in aggressive, quasi-legal practices intended to frighten people away from the sharing of copyright material without having the legal repercussions from using these tactics backfiring on the copyright holders themselves. While this lawsuit seems crazy and immoral, there is method in Rightscorp's apparent madness and badness, and it is certainly consistent with their other practices. This lawsuit will hit the news just like all their other antics, and create a general level of FUD that will induce people to think twice before they download copyright material, just in case they find themselves at the wrong end of a lawsuit that they cannot afford to defend.
- boomlinde 12y ago
  Is Rightscorp a music publisher?