RIAA/MPAA Copyright Critique

isnt this the same kind of thing that allows most companies to hide behind riaa/mpaa?

Sounds like the RIAA / various large publishers are still more powerful than the Home Office and fighting copyright infringement is still more important than fighting terrorism, since they can reportedly take down videos directly (and have often done so).

I see this issue as the same issue seen by the MPAA when looking at piracy.The tech is there.It won't ever leave.If you cut off one head, three will replace it.In my opinion: Copyright is a failure and the absolute best move, with the advantage AI has given to everyone, is to abolish copyright.

Corporates can't have it both ways - the Hollywood corporates lobbied intensively to extend copyright for as long as 75+ years (if I recall right) because that's what would benefit them. Many have protested about this. Some tech corporates (namely search and AI companies) now feel encumbered by this, and even indulge in piracy to circumvent copyright (without any meaningful consequences), and we are now supposed to feel sorry for them? Are any of these Tech corporates also lobbying for

It's an interesting thought experiment. But even if you figure out a way to remain on the right side of the law today, the copyright cartels will just buy some new laws to make whatever they don't like illegal. The only way to stop this corruption is to thoroughly defund them.

This is also the opinion I reached after thinking about it for quite some time.I am, a wee bit, shocked people believe there can be impactful legislation on this. As if politicians who have been unable to curb PIRACY in any real sense would now be able to tackle an even tougher problem. This is despite well funded lobbying groups. Even large corps enable piracy without consequences.Further, the government frequently indicates a concern that China will beat the US at AI.There is an extr

This might not be such a bad thing.https://www.eff.org/issues/tpps-copyright-trap

Seems a bit like put.io. Companies that make money purely by supporting copyright fraud historically have faced a lot of problems, though.

Especially the copyright / IP obsessed USA won't go this path.Otherwise they would create the ultimate "copyright laundry machine".[1]I'm very sure at least Hollywood and the big music labels would not like that… ;-)[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33459967

I can't tell if this is meant to be sarcastic or not. It looks like in taking the Devil's advocate position, you just drew a pretty close parallel between what the "other" "real" incumbent entertainment industry companies themselves actually do all day long masquerading as "legitimate enterprise" and what Mega-co the competition is doing.Of course copyright is not actually licensed as FRAND like in the case of a patent accepted by some standards body,