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RIAA CEO Wants Google to Stop 'Whack-A-Mole'

posted by LaminatorX on Friday March 14 2014, @09:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the blather-rinse-repeat dept.

Fluffeh writes:

"In a written statement to a House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on the DMCA takedown system, RIAA CEO Cary Sherman informed lawmakers about the ongoing struggle against online piracy. 'All those links to infringing music files that were automatically repopulated by each pirate site after today's takedown will be re-indexed and appear in search results tomorrow. Every day we have to send new notices to take down the very same links to illegal content we took down the day before. It's like Groundhog Day for takedowns,' Sherman says.

Google, however, clearly disagrees with the RIAA, Katherine Oyama, Google's Senior Copyright Policy Counsel said 'The best way to battle piracy is with better, more convenient, legitimate alternatives to piracy, as services ranging from Netflix to Spotify to iTunes have demonstrated. The right combination of price, convenience, and inventory will do far more to reduce piracy than enforcement can.'"

 
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  • (Score: 1) by deathlyslow on Friday March 14 2014, @10:09AM

    by deathlyslow (2818) on Friday March 14 2014, @10:09AM (#16381)

    quote Google is not the internet police. They have automated systems that scan what is being made available by others. They are not responsible for filtering or doing the work for other groups' censorship goals. /quote But they are. They already filter out "objectionable" material, kiddy porn, etc. They have the tech to do what *ias want they just don't. As soon as they get thrown enough money there will be blocking of whatever they are told to. they = government, Google, ISPs, etc.