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Originally Posted by twisted Illustration
What a narrow minded statement ...
dude ... it's not about the money ... it's about HE owns that shit and if HE wants it off the net, it's HIS right.
You could apply that to the porn tube sites ... the fact that some of these porn companies are already rich so why should they care? Prince is not just a musician, he's a businessman and artist ... he wants to protect his rights.
Jeez, come ON!  |
Good post and also Kane. DollarKing probably runs a Tube site and thinks it's fine to have content he's clueless about it's legality.
It's Princes property, he has every right to decide where it's published. How rich, good or known he is has nothing to do with it.
The situation is clear, these companies are so big they can't effectively police themselves in their pursuit to make money.
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"In the last couple of weeks we have directly removed approximately 2,000 Prince videos from YouTube," said Web Sheriff managing director John Giacobbi.
"The problem is that one can reduce it to zero and then the next day there will be 100 or 500 or whatever. This carries on ad nauseam at Prince's expense," he told Reuters.
He said his company had also removed around 300 items from eBay, where whole lines of pirated goods trading on Prince's name had appeared, including clocks, socks, mugs and key rings.
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The response seems to be in essence, "We are so busy trying to throw things up on our site or have others throw it up, that we can't be bothered to police our own site."
This is the problem if you allow a service provider to be exempt from the products he distributes, displays or allows others to sell/distribute. The cost of having someone on the site 24/7 approving submissions could be as low as $30 by employing people in India, in Czech it would cost $100 a day. Peanuts to a company like Ebay. But still a cost they will not take on.
Yes I understand that if they check one they have to check them all and are responsible. But that's the idea of running a business, you're responsible for what you do.
The good thing about this is it again brings online theft into the news and into the courts. Every time it gets to the courts it tries another route to bring these people down. The porn industry will "piggy back" on to the back of the film, recording and other industries. It has to change and will change, the problem is laws take a long time to change.