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[ NNSquad ] Hollywood studios attempt to censor Pirate Bay documentary
Hollywood studios attempt to censor Pirate Bay documentary
http://j.mp/12JzD2d (Torrent Freak)
"Over the past weeks several movie studios have been trying to suppress
the availability of TPB-AFK by asking Google to remove links to the
documentary from its search engine. The links are carefully hidden in
standard DMCA takedown notices for popular movies and TV-shows. The
silent attacks come from multiple Hollywood sources including Viacom,
Paramount, Fox and Lionsgate and are being sent out by multiple
anti-piracy outfits."
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There is nothing whatever in this documentary that would justify a
DMCA takedown. And I'll add here, as we've discussed many times
before, that while piracy issues are real, the lost sales figures
quoted by the entertainment industry are utterly inflated and bogus,
assuming as they do that each downloaded illicit copy actually
represents a lost sale. Most are opportunistic, and never would have
been sales. AT&T tried a similar approach back in the days of phone
phreaks, a topic with which I have considerable (er, uh, second and
third hand, of course!) experience. AT&T tried claiming that free
calls made by phone phreaks represented actual lost call revenue. But
most of those calls would otherwise never have taken place, and
actually occurred in relatively inconsequential numbers over idle
circuits already in place with significant available capacity."
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
- Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org
- Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
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