Cloudflare Slams MPAA and RIAA's 'Distorted' Piracy Claims (torrentfreak.com) 16
Cloudflare has hit back at the entertainment industry's anti-piracy groups, RIAA and MPAA, which accused the service of helping pirate sites to hide. From a TorrentFreak report:Cloudflare was not pleased with this description, to say the least, and has now sent a rebuttal to the U.S. Trade Representative. The company highlights that it's a legitimate business and scolds the MPAA and RIAA for their misleading descriptions. "The submissions by the RIAA and MPAA present distorted descriptions of services that companies like Cloudflare provide. These descriptions fail to provide the USTR with an accurate description of the true intent, purpose, and value of Cloudflare's services," Cloudflare's General Counsel Doug Kramer writes. The company is disappointed in the industry groups, which fail to mention the efforts they have taken so far to address abuse. "Potentially even more troubling than the RIAA and MPAA's descriptions of Cloudflare's services is their complete omission of Cloudflare's efforts to address the small minority of users about which they complain."
The first casualty of war is truth. (Score:1)
These are organizations who are willing to take resources away from counter-terrorism because little Timmy might download the new star wars. They're serial liars and utterly shameless. Libelling a company is small potatoes.
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That's why I don't believe in imaginary property. (ProTip: Neither did the Founders.)
No way!!!! (Score:4, Funny)
Are you telling me that the RIAA and the MPAA are just a bunch of dicks???? Well here is how we fight back:
Movie tickets for 2 ... $20 ... $25 ... regrettable ... priceless ( to the bedbugs )
Snacks for 2
Quality of the reboot movie cause that is all they do anymore
The bedbugs you bring home
RIAA and MPAA should go after people illegally copying bedbugs while attending their movies.
The interesting question is "why?" (Score:1)
I find it more compelling to know why these tactics work and how they are used in various places. Lawyers aren't known for presenting accurate descriptions of anything, since their whole job is to present as slanted and outlandishly biased a narrative as can be legally produced. A murder trial will see both sides omitting critical evidence unless obligated not to and not having plausible deniability. Why then do we expect such a politically charged case to be any different? Why does this surprise us eno
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These tactics work because what you see is just the marketing, basically the barest bit of PR=B$ to cover over the shenanigans going on in the background. What is going on in the background, offshore tax haven bribes, physical access to young gullible hopeful performers at drug laced parties, campaign contributions, complete distortions of reality in main stream media and as a result actual corporate lawyers writing laws, that corrupt politicians don't even bother to read but vote on them because sex, drugs
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Copyright Infringement is not Piracy (Score:1)
"Pirate" is a word used to frame the argument in favor of the MPAA and RIAA. Stop using it!