A big thing on Facebook is closed stealing dens called "groups," where people can hide and exchange links to music files and movies. Here's one on everything 60's, with a disclaimer along the top.
See, it's OK to use copyrighted material as long as you tell people it's copyrighted.
At least, that works on the Internet. Not in the real world.
In the real world you can't walk out of the restaurant without paying the check, saying "I only pay if I really like something. That meal was for evaluation purposes only."
If you walk out of the bookstore with a shelf of non-fiction books, you can't tell the security guard, "Information should be free!"
And if you grab a dozen Snickers bars off the counter at 7-11, and toss them to a bunch of children and start eating one yourself, you can't tell Habib, "I'm sharing! You should thank me for being so generous. Maybe next week some of these kids will come in and buy something from you."
Of course, in the REAL WORLD, people make money only if they SELL things.
On the INTERNET, big companies like Facebook and Google (owners of YouTube and Blogger and a search engine that leads people to torrents) make money by letting people steal copyrighted material.
Ebay, the biggest fence on the Internet, certainly doesn't want to stop petty larcenous stooges from selling the entire Stephen King collection on PDF, ePub and Mobi for three bucks. "It's up to Stephen King to get his ass off Twitter and send in a DMCA," is their attitude. Every Internet company makes sure their takedown process is complicated and loaded with hoops. Or as Paypal says, "You must download our PDF form, fill it in, and upload it even though all of the PDF writing disappears when you try and send it! HA!"
Over at YouTube, owned by Google, they don't mind if people admit that they're stealing. They won't knock off a post just because somebody admits "hey, I have no right to post this, and no copyright, but I'm doing it anyway." PS, Google is proud of their CLOUD service, which is how all the eBay bootleggers sell their PDF, ePUB and MOBI dupes: "I will send you a link to the Google Cloud so you can download your purchase. PS, any other books you want, let me know and we'll do a private deal!"
Did you read the excuses? "I don't own copyright to the games its for ur enjoyment." And "No copyright infringement intended...copyrights are the property of the respective owners."
When you don't automatically shut down items that have ridiculous caveats, you are telling people that copyright is SHIT.
The purpose of copyright is for the creator to control its use. "I own this movie. I license it and get paid. Or, I should." "I wrote this song. I'd like some royalties." "I took this photo. It does me NO good to see it used all over the Net. If I want to sell it to a newspaper or have it appear in a book, the reply is 'why pay for what everybody's seen?' And they buy a photo that hasn't been ABUSED."
Try explaining copyright to cheap bastard, malicious twits who are jealous of creativity, or ignorant fools who grumble, "Dont ruin our fun!"
Copyright, like the Emancipation Proclamation, is a fairly new legal concept designed to prevent slavery and victimization. But, Copyright Owner is a slave to the owner of an illegal torrent, forum or blog.
There are entire nations that don't believe in copyright, and they have created safe-havens for people to do everything from knock off movies and Gucci handbags, to set up websites for demeaning pornography aimed at every female celebrity on the planet and blogs that post new music every day. Russian websites even allow people to sell cheap downloads of books, music and movies using credit cards or bitcoin, and Capitalist countries don't even try to block this, because of powerful lobbying from the Internet giants that now dwarf all publishers, TV networks and movie companies in terms of power.
If you use a certain word to describe a person of a particular race or creed, you could lose your job. People get upset. But if you say "I don't own copyright, I just decided I can give this away," nobody is offended. Certainly not YouTube, which doesn't state, "Do not post copyrighted material without permission. We will ask you to provide proof of licensing and if you can't, you will be suspended."
Zuckerberg's Facebook and Google's Blogger (aka Blogspot) allow people to create a thieve's den and then "close" it to the eyes of copyright owners. Tell Google, "This blog, with closed membership, is allowing people to download hundreds of copyrighted music albums," and the form letter response is, "Give us specific URLs or go fuck yourself." How do you give specific URLs when the blog is closed and only "trusted" members are allowed in? Copyright owners are restricted...like Jews trying to get into certain clubs.
Jews are no longer restricted. Quotas on them (only a CERTAIN number being allowed in a particular college or university at one time) are gone. Use the "N" word and you're toast. Women have gotten most newspapers to ban the B word and put in "B...h" instead, and the "C" word has NEVER been allowed. But there's another C word. It's C with a circle around it. It stands for COPYRIGHT. It might as well stand for CLOWN, because it's being laughed at.
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