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I just had a discussion on copyright. I argued that copyright was created for public benefit, to incentivize creation of works through an exclusive right to copy. This was probably a sensible thing to do in 1710. But today it is no longer the arrangement most conducive to public benefit. Infinite, easy, and cheap copying exists, affording the possibility of extremely wide circulation of works once limited to analog forms. The weight that the artificial scarcity of copyright places on technology is now unreasonable.
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Copyright Industry Calls For Broad Search Engine Censorship | TorrentFreak
At a behind-closed-doors meeting facilitated by the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport, copyright holders have handed out a list of demands to Google, Bing and Yahoo. To curb the growing piracy problem, Hollywood and the major music labels want the search engines to de-list popular filesharing sites such as The Pirate Bay, and give higher ranking to authorized sites. It’s no secret that the entertainment industries believe search engines are not delivering enough when it comes to protecting copyright works. Just last month, the RIAA and IFPI accused Google of massively profiting from piracy, while putting up barriers to make life difficult for rightsholders. If the copyright industry had their way, Google and other search engines would no longer link to sites such as The Pirate Bay and isoHunt.PLF - Peoples Liberation Front
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