Re: Romance Publisher Launches Kickass Antipiracy Campaign

Yup. Money. Tons of it.
Ad money, mostly. Virtually any high-traffic 'torrent' or pirate site will contain search engine-provided ads.

How much do the SE's contribute to politicians, political groups, and campaign funds?
What about the faceless and highly questionable non-US contribs to 2008 political campaigns via Paypal, a subsidiary of a certain SE?

What politician would want to anger the biggest and potentially most dangerous dogs of the Internet by initiating legislation against a prime source of their regular income?

If we want tougher blanket legislation against piracy, we'll have to organize and become too embarrassingly loud to ignore.

Second choice and likely easier to initiate would be class action lawsuits against the SE's for aiding and abetting the infringers.
Ed

--- In [email protected], joseph harris wrote:
> Thanks for the clarification Ed. There's not much point if the results aren't there. You have a strong point about search engines; any thoughts on why they get hardly a mention for legislation on piracy?
> 
> Joseph
> 
> On 09/06/2011 12:10, auwg wrote:
> > Attributor isn't really a solution.
> > You (author/pubber) still have to submit links.
> > They say they'll do some searching too.
> >
> > But it all still amounts to an online 'whack a mole' game.
> >
> > Let's say a thief wants a copy of Author Whosis's latest book.
> > What's his/her first step?
> > Simple. Fire up a search engine.
> > It bumbles around the net for a while and barfs up page after page of 'torrents' or 'torrentz' and some non-USA websites that offer Author Whosis's stuff. It'll even turn up some blatantly-named piracy clubs.
> >
> > Many of the piracy sites are in China (a.k.a. "The Internet's Oldest and Largest Den of Thieves") and India and other places that flatly don't care about copyright infringement of US authors.
> > What's Attributor going to do about them?
> > Nothing. Nada. Zip.
> >
> > Every search engine out there is a de facto accessory to copyright infringement crime when it holds up its little links saying, "Click here for stolen stuff!"
> >
> > Until we can make the first step of FINDING pirated works much more difficult, we will have accomplished nothing.
> > Force the search engines to filter out known piracy sites and search terms and over half the battle against copyright infringement will have been won immediately.
> > Ed
> > Ed Howdershelt - Abintra Press
> > Science Fiction&  Semi-Fiction
> > http://www.AbintraPress.com
> >
>




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