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Corporate Copyright Violation Hypocrisy
Feb 07-2012
Devices & systems that promise
freedom but create dependence
CNET P2P software download and review page Feb 07-2012
Some of America's largest corporations have invested in and promoted file sharing technology
companies, and are directly responsible for enabling the world wide file sharing phenomenon
Quote: "CNET Editors' note: Using P2P and file-sharing software to distribute copyrighted material without authorization is illegal in the United States and many other countries. CBS Interactive does not encourage or condone the illegal duplication or distribution of copyrighted content"
CNET owned by CBS (who was owned by Viacom) hosts over 400, reviewed and rated P2P & file-sharing downloads. The main purpose this software is to illegally download copyrighted material. Yet due to the sites "reputation" it "might be perceived" to be a legimate and accepatble practice, especially with hundreds of millions of downloads.
Quotes: "Movie Torrent is free. Lets users download a variety of different media types. We recommend this program"
"uTorrent should be the torrent program of choice CNET Editors' Rating: 5.0 stars - Spectacular"
CNET distributed over 250 million copies of LimeWire, 325 million copies of KaZaa and 100 million copies of Morpheus. Promoting these offerings for years, they have knowingly put millions of people at risk for lawsuits, for their own profit.
Of all the internet traffic in 2010 and 2011 almost 20% was used for P2P filesharing.
The lawsuit accuses Google and its popular online video unit of "massive intentional copyright infringement" for allowing users to upload popular shows, threatening ambitions to make YouTube a major entertainment and advertising outlet.
Viacom's Spike.com has been taking videos from YouTube and uploading them to their site and without permission, changing the title and inserting their own ads, with no back link to YouTube. The pot calling the kettle black ?
iFilm.com was purchased by Viacom for $49 million, in hopes of creating their own user-generated YouTube rival. With iFilm's similar copyright infringing problems while suing Google, iFilm.com was redirected to ScreenJunkies.com
Google Busted for Copyright Violation in Belgium
Google infringes the copyrights of Belgian newspapers by placing links to and portions of their articles on Google News, the Belgian Court of Appeals has ruled.
Google signed a criminal Non-Prosecution Agreement with the Department of Justice, to settle criminal charges, by knowingly and repeatedly violated Federal criminal laws prohibiting the “unsafe and unlawful importation of prescription drugs into the U.S." for several years. Google forfeited $500 million generated by online ads and prescription drug sales by Canadian online pharmacies.
Google Opposes SOPA/PIPA for fear of Piracy Liabilities
Google would stand to lose a lot of revenue especially through YouTube where countless videos would have to be removed. Embedding videos could be illegal without the permission of the original authors'. Millions of web sites use embedded YouTube videos, which might remove them if the liability extends to them as well.
Major Corporations' Involvement in Enabling File Sharing
Information on how CNET/CBS Interactive fueled Internet piracy
Perhaps the most dangerous aspect of the bills is that the conduct it would criminalize is so poorly defined. With 7 million signatures and 7,000 websites who coordinated a service blackout, or posted links and images in protest against SOPA and PIPA, the bills are postponed only until issues raised about the bills are resolved.
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Microsoft's native Windows Media Player allows users to "Rip" off CD music. This "feature" has been available in almost all their Windows versions for more than 15 years. However the media you purchase from Microsoft is DRM copy protected so you can't "Rip" it off. Under SOPA/PIPA this "Rip Music feature" could be illegal.
Google's copyright violations in China
Viacom's Anti-Piracy Ad
Limewire is dead as of 2010
Kazaa is now a legal pay per month site,
after paying $100 million in reparations to RIAA
Morpheus official website is offline as of October 2008
Digital Music File Sharing History Trivia
Recording Industry Association of America
RIAA formed in 1952 and is a trade organization that represents the recording industry distributors in the United States who distributes approximately 85% of all legally sold recorded music in the United States. They have sucessfully sued a number of file sharing networks and individuals, totalling hundreds of millions of dollars. They lost a $1.65 trillion lawsuit against a Russian owned and operated website, AllOfMP3.com. In 2008 they announced they will stop their lawsuits against individuals.
The "work made for hire" controversy
In 1999, Mitch Glazier, a Congressional staff attorney, inserted, without public notice or comment, substantive language into the final markup of a "technical corrections" section of copyright legislation, classifying many music recordings as "works made for hire," thereby stripping artists of their copyright interests and transferring those interests to their record labels. Shortly afterwards, Glazier was hired as Senior Vice President of Government Relations and Legislative Counsel for the RIAA, which vigorously defended the change when it came to light. The battle over the disputed provision led to the formation of the Recording Artists' Coalition, which successfully lobbied for repeal of the change in 2000.
Devices & systems that promise
freedom but create dependence
The Age of Privacy is Over
Authors Guild vs. Google, a class action lawsuit alleging Copyright infringement
Google announced an agreement to pay $125 million to settle the lawsuit in 2008 but Google filed an appeal. The appeal fails and it was upheld in 2011.
Google Image Search Not a Copyright Violation
The German Supreme Court ruled that images pulled from the Web and displayed on Google's Image Search results does not infringe on the owner's rights.
Feb 2012 European court rules social networking sites do not require filtering system in copyright case brought by music royalties firm
A group of prominent Chinese writers are demanding $3.5 million in compensation from Apple Inc. for allegedly selling unlicensed versions of their books in its online store.