isoHunt sues CRIA on legality of search engines

Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 3:25 pm

Keep up the good work Exclamation

Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 4:29 am

Nice
Good post.
Good decision.

Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 9:19 pm

I'll donate to that.

Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 11:39 am

The fact that current copyright material can be distributed is clearly a matter that the courts will find fault with. I have not seen any mention made of information that is no longer available for retail. So I cannot buy a Marilyn Monroe film but can download it from a Torrent website. I don't see this as infringement of copyright because it is not for sale and I think that an extension of the Freedom of Information Act is applicable here for discontinued songs, films and other information.

Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 5:09 am

Vizzible wrote:

Good luck with the court case. If you need help...You got about 500,000 members here for ya Cool

Regarding your ongoing case with the CRIA. I just think that it is another case of an organisation misinterpreting the views of its clients, namely the artistes who have, until recently, been forced into making deals with Companies who had the financial clout to act as representative and sole distribution channel that had access to resources that made it easy to earn a respectable, nay substantial, income, whilst doing something that they obviously love doing. The recent Christmas number 1, here in the UK (A rerelease of Rage Against the Machine 1992 song, Killing in the name) is an example of the attitude of people who now have a simple method of creating critical masses of people. This is what the Record companies & industry associations are up against. We should not be disheartened to hear that the stale Associations are using legal challenges to try & stifle progress which benefits their customers. Rather we should be glad that they are behind the times & therefore they have come out with the only thing they have ever had much of: money. This is a last desparate act of theirs to try & put a brake on the unstoppable change that the internet has caused. In the introduction to the book Open Sources (Oreilly, 1999) Chris DiBona states that the internet has lowered the accessibility bar for new entrants to the market to a much lower level. This is certainly the case for new musicians and other types of artists. It gives them immediate access to a worldwide audience without them needing to set up complex contracts with companies. Instead it allows them to directly distribute to their potential customers. We have already seen the impact that services such as itunes has had on the music industry. It is therefore only a matter of time before that same industry realises that potential benefit. A Number of well-known content-based providers already provide services via bittorrent and other P2P protocols and these should be applauded for realising that market opportunity. No one association is ever going to force a site to go offline just because it dosent fit with their clients business model. That model should instead be modified to take advantage of the opportunity.

I Will certainly make a donation for this most worthy of causes.

Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 12:20 am