Court: Cloudflare is Liable for Pirate Site, But Not as a DNS Provider
Court: Cloudflare is Liable for Pirate Site, But Not as a DNS Provider
A German court has confirmed that Cloudflare must stop facilitating access to pirate music site DDL-Music though its CDN service.
The music industry welcomed the development, stating that a service that helps infringers evade prosecution through anonymization also acts illegally.
But a service that artificially inflates revenues with shady accounting of song plays while simultaneously withholding payments toward creators, that's totally not criminal.
-Also the music industry
Copyright laws based in the eighteenth century sure are awesome when applying analog scarcity to the digital world! /s
I agree, why not have all of the funds go to servers and the engineers+teams and the rest of the profits go to artists that make the service possible
I'm for publishers and other representatives of the old system pulling away from the digital world close to entirely. Their whole business model requires scarcity that used to exist when creators were on the other side of the world and fans were lucky to have them come within 200 miles for a chance to enjoy them, and in the meantime, want to buy a record to experience them at home.
Now, creators can be in our hands, on our desks, and easily in our living rooms. The middlemen that brought those scarce physical objects to us (records, tapes, vhs and audio, books, etc) aren't needed anymore, because the distribution of the art or idea is instant and on demand and already paid for by the communications package we all subscribe to.
Fans can connect directly with creators, who no longer need millions of fans to give them a huge slice of overall music (or other creative work) revenue. Just a few hundred devoted fans is enough to live comfortably, instead of being a superstar.
I'm dreaming, though...
ETA: the publishers could rethink their role and evolve to help creatives reach their audience, but, currently, they impede that. Creatives do better (per fan) when they know their fans and can connect directly with them.
At this point its pretty much a moral transgression to buy music from any labels, organizations, or groups filing these lawsuits. If no one bought their music, they'd have to join a mock trial team or debate club and we might finally be able to straighten out the mess that is copyright law. :-D
Exactly. Especially getting rid of this ridiculous buy but now own idea.
Cloudflare should discontinue service to music streaming companies or music industry sites. Let the music industry go to war with the internet at large and see how this plays out for them.
Like the Bahnhof ISP in Sweden. They were ordered by a court order from Elsevier (the academic journal extortion firm) to block sci-hub, so they blocked sci-hub and Elsevier journals.
I really hope everyday piracy goes to I2P. Screw these people
With qbittorrent supporting i2p, I think we will soon be there. The main hurdle is private trackers who rely on IP info.
The day rutracker and nyaa move is when I'll truly feel at home pirating on i2p
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