Music Labels' Joint Venture, VEVO, Shows Pirated NFL Game At Sundance

TechCrunch:

Over the last decade the major music labels -- and their trade organization, the Recording Industry Association of America -- have established a repeated pattern of attacking consumers in the name of squelching illegal file-sharing.

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Comments

[Cynth]

02:27 PM on 02/10/2012

"It's not wrong when I do it."

[westreal]

11:41 AM on 02/10/2012

Good reporting

[Post31]

11:14 AM on 02/10/2012

I'm not sure but doesn't the NFL now have a right to sue these fools. More of do as I say not as I do from the rich folks. Man can't believe frontrow is now gone. How am I going to watch my games when the NFL blacks out my team for not sell

[J0E1]

10:22 AM on 02/10/2012

...and yet no one will be charged with a crime and none of the people showing the super bowl will be fined.

[gx5000]

09:46 AM on 02/10/2012

Abolish those Intellectual Rights laws, bring copyright back down to 27 (28 ?) years like it was.
There were really no issues in the past except that complete control of one's creation was limited.
Now it's become f@cism in the worse possible way....

[JohnQB]

09:13 AM on 02/10/2012

Lamar Smith, the congressman who authored SOPA, was using pirated material on his own website. He had several copy-protected photos on his website background without purchasing them or crediting the photographer.

Magically his site "crashed" and came back up without them.

[Rich914]

08:26 AM on 02/10/2012

If copyright owners use the Internet to deliver and promote their goods, they assume the risks inherent with it, such as unauthorized down loading. If they want to protect their property from any and all unauthorized use or copying then they can lock it up in a safe. The FBI should not be deputized to mind the industry's herd.

[nofriendofrepublicans]

08:15 AM on 02/10/2012

It's only considered piracy when it's their product.

[evilchihuahua]

08:06 AM on 02/10/2012

For an industry that has stolen billions from the artists it represents to have the nerve to complain about lost profit is absurd.
Artists on the other hand have got a legitimate complaint.

[Exhaust]

07:57 AM on 02/10/2012

You asked ESPN? The game was on CBS. Yeap...free TV. Try again.

[Cynth]

02:26 PM on 02/10/2012

Free is still copyrighted.

[CentralNY]

02:53 PM on 02/10/2012

ESPN had the license to broadcast in Europe. They were showing a feed that is only licensed for use in Europe. CBS had the exclusive license to broadcast that game in the United States. The world's not as simple as you think.

[SmotPoker]

07:48 AM on 02/10/2012

What we need is more artist such as Louis C.K. who made a video of one of his performances, offered it online for $5 and made over a million dollars within a few weeks.

The best part of the story? He split it up by paying off the production cost with the first 250k, gave out bonuses to the cast and crew with another 250k, donated another 250k to a few different charities, and then started keeping profits for himself with the caveat that he would continue such action with further profits.

He put out a quality product, didn't need a staff of thousands along with a cost of millions that add to the final market price to hype and market the project, and shared his good fortune when given the opportunity. Rarely do people do the good thing when touched with such good fortune and I applaud and support Louis in this and other endeavors.

Kevin Smith has also put out a project "Red State" cutting out the usual Hollywood middle man and associated costs that effect the final price for consumers. I hope to see more and more artist revolutionizing the entertainment industry. The recording and film corporations are nothing more than vampires making their living on the talents of others.

[Tmus82]

07:12 AM on 02/10/2012

Hahaha lock them all up felons everyone at the company maximum security prison 200 million dollar fine a pice.

[kapalabhati]

07:10 AM on 02/10/2012

Pretty funny.

[Toddynho]

06:59 AM on 02/10/2012

The funny thing is that these groups represent such TRITE and horrible producers and products these days that not only do I not want to buy these products, but I don't even want to waste my time downloading them for free.

At one point I paid when there was quality, then the quality dropped so I downloaded simply out of boredom, now I can't even be bothered at all. I read books and take walks in beautiful areas for entertainment, and that beats anything the record industry or the film industry is doing these days.

You want to make more money? Produce better products and stop catering to the 14 year old crowd.

[Midnight Son]

10:29 AM on 02/10/2012

So true. In the 90s, I was an avid music consumer. I was also a DJ. There were times when I would drop $400 a month on music. By the time their sob stories about "piracy" became mainstream news, I was spending about $30-40 every 6-12 months. The amount of formulaic garbage that hadn't even been tweaked was simply overwhelming. No, I didn't pirate it either. Focusing on pirates was always a losing battle if the goal was to maintain sales, as there are simply too many pirates who would never purchase the music anyways. Whereas, people like me who were sick of it and just not spending money, the industry just ignored us. There's really only a handful of reasons you see the entertainment industry pushing for legislation again: 1.) They want control over competition and 2.) They want subsidies from the government to offset "piracy" like they got for cassette tapes at one point.

[KeyopsBack]

06:20 AM on 02/10/2012

Why weren't these people attacking Maxel,TDK and Memorex,during the 80s when I was copying
my friends records that I didn't buy?

[LastAngryWoman]

07:26 AM on 02/10/2012

I seem to recall that they were...
I remember many of my friends debating whether we should go the way of the Europeans...charge a tax at point of purchase...this tax would go into a fund to be dispersed among those who created the piece or album.
It was simply more difficult to go after everyone because the copying was done "offline" as it were, and in the actual privacy of one's home.
Now that you add the internet into the equation...well...nuff said about privacy.

[Exhaust]

07:40 AM on 02/10/2012

They had know way of know the number of times that happened. When profits drop by that much, you start to look for where that money went. And...you didn't take your recording equipment to 1000 or even 20 friends houses.

[Exhaust]

07:46 AM on 02/10/2012

wow...early....no way of knowing