RIAA: The Copyright Reform We Need Is To Make Everyone Else Copyright Cops

Found on Techdirt on Friday, 24 May 2013
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Despite heavy budget cuts and layoffs, the RIAA hasn't yet realized that singing the same old debunked song isn't a winner. It's claiming that the DMCA's safe harbors are broken and need to be fixed.

Brad Buckles, wrote the latest misleading screed against the safe harbors. The short version is basically: everyone else needs to prop up our business models by randomly taking down content that might, possibly be infringing.

I'd also imagine it matters quite a bit to tons of musicians who are not a part of the RIAA machine, who now use the internet to have a better career than they ever had under the old system.

With a dead business model, the RIAA and MPAA sure refuse a lot to die.