Thread: Entertainment Industry Admits Suing Pirates Not a “Solution”

Tells Commerce Dept in reply to a “Notice of Inquiry” that the “role of lawsuits in solving the online theft problem is clearly limited,” and that it needs ISPs to implement “meaningful sanctions” against repeat infringers as well as to filter offshore sites that facilitate copyright infringement.

A conglomeration of ten entertainment industry trade groups, the RIAA and MPAA among them, recently replied to a “Notice of Inquiry” on “Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Internet Economy” sent out by the Dept of Commerce, and in it they admit that their sue-em-all strategy has had mixed results at best.


“The lawsuits in which we have engaged have had some positive impacts – they have increased public understanding about the consequences of copyright infringement, acted to deter future infringements, and helped shape consumer decision making about seeking legitimate alternatives for the consumption of music,” reads their reply.


“However, for a number of reasons, the role of lawsuits in solving the online theft problem is clearly limited. For instance, bringing clear-cut claims against major commercial infringers is not by itself a solution in the long run. These cases take years to litigate and are an enormous resource drain.”


It points to the LimeWire case as an example of how lawsuits have failed to really have an impact on illegal file-sharing. It spent 4 years and tens of millions of dollars in legal fees for a verdict that will likely have minimal, if any impact on P2P, especially after developers released LimeWire Pirate Edition that removed the program’s dependency on LimeWire LLC’s servers


“Such massive civil cases do not provide a scalable solution to the full scope of the problem,” it continues.


So what’s their solution? Enacting the controversial Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act so that they can seek to block sites and services accused of copyright infringement at the ISP level since “copyright thieves are adept at jumping across borders and assuming alternate identities to evade the long arm of the law.”




They also believe that “meaningful sanctions” should be taken against “repeat infringers” in order to send a “powerful message” that the practice will no longer be tolerated.


Source: Entertainment Industry Admits Suing Pirates Not a “Solution”

Its good to see at last some of them can understand the practical situation..

In my opinion as they no longer control it, however much he may make, may decrease a little more just they can not sell anymore.

I still don´t get why they insist no this, the more they do, more trackers will open. Prices for some stuff like music, books are ridiculous, culture should arrive at every home at a fair price, but no, it´s all so expensive.

Originally Posted by Reload

I still don´t get why they insist no this, the more they do, more trackers will open. Prices for some stuff like music, books are ridiculous, culture should arrive at every home at a fair price, but no, it´s all so expensive.

I agree with you 100%. Everything is overpriced and the industries always have a different excuse for why it cost so much. If it isn't about medium cost, then they blame it on piracy or something off the wall like aliens.

I'm not for blatant copy-right infringement. It's my belief that if you like a product, whether movie, book, app, etc., you should purchase that product and help support the creator. My only problem is with the amount of crap that is released from these industries with the all sales are final marketing tactic. As far as I'm concerned, if I don't like say, a music album that I purchased because of advertising hype for example, I should have the right to return it because, quite frankly, I purchased an entertainment product. If I'm not entertained then, it's not doing what it advertised and I deserve a refund. There have been countless times I've seen a trailer for movie that's filled with great reviews and ratings and I end up turning the movie off because the trailer completely misrepresented the movie and it's quality.

The way I see it, if I see a commercial for this great vacuum on tv that will supposedly suck a bowling ball though a straw I'll go buy it. If after I assemble said vacuum and try it out, if that vacuum has a hard time pickup up loose dirt, than it is not doing what it was advertised I have the rigHt to return that vacuum for a full refund. Attempt to do that with anything from the entertainment industry and they'll just laugh at you.