Shut down lyric sites!
p2pnet news | Music:- Sites carrying lyrics are in trouble again.
In 2005 MPA (Music Publishers’ Association) president Lauren Keiser was trying to get web pages featuring lyrics shut down and also wanted “jail time” thrown in, just to make sure.
Now, the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) has “quietly stepped up” efforts to shut down popular sites, ” that publish lyrics to songs without their permission – and are demanding that Google and Yahoo! remove all references to them in search results,” says the New York Post.
What’s behind it? Angry songwriters, perhaps?
“The move against lyric sites comes as the publishing business is in the midst of rolling out official online-lyric offerings through such places as Yahoo! Music and Real Networks’ Rhapsody, via deals with lyric aggregators Gracenote and LyricFind,” says the story, going:
“In those deals, publishers license lyrics for online reproduction in exchange for a portion of ad revenues from the sites.”
Among the sites in the crosshairs are AZ Lyrics Universe and Lyrics.com.
Not only but also, “in a new twist, publishers are going after search engines, too,” says the New York Post, adding:
“Under DMCA regs, search engines are vulnerable to lawsuits for linking to sites hosting unauthorized works.
“Publishing sources say the NMPA has been talking to Google and other search engines about removing illegal lyrics sites from search indices.”
Also See:
also wanted “jail time” – Lyric sites and jail time, December 4, 2005
New York Post – ARREST THAT STANZA! LYRIC SITES A TARGET, September 1a, 2007
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September 17th, 2007 at 9:02 am
There’s this song I heard on the radio. I know a clip of the lyrics. I tried finding a search box at http://www.riaa.com/ so I could find out who made it. There was none. I typed the lyrics into Google and found the artist and title easily. A little more research led me to what record company owned the song. I went to that company’s website to see if they’d let me know what song and artist it was based on the lyrics. But there was no search box there either. Google helped me find the song name, artist, and CD that the song was on, this is required information when you want to buy the CD! The record company that released it and the RIAA were no help at all. It’s no surprise, but it’s yet another fun example of how accurate their aim is when they want to shoot themselves in the foot.
September 17th, 2007 at 9:45 am
Every day it seems it seems like these people come out with something stupider than the last.
September 17th, 2007 at 10:31 am
“this is required information when you want to buy the CD!”
Stop giving these assholes money, they pay a pittance to the artists and use the rest to fatten their pockets, sue fans, and shut down tab and lyrics sites.
September 17th, 2007 at 11:18 am
To the first poster that couldn’t find anything on our RIAA or members sites: this problem is the fault of all you illegal downloaders, you idiot.
We say what you get and what you don’t get. Capiche?
September 17th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
To the above poster: This is excatly why p2p now exists. By not meeting the needs of the public, as usual a vaccum has been filled to take care of that need.
Isn’t it nice that the labels don’t have much to say in that but are left with only rear guard actions in attempting to uphold their outmoded business model?
They are not winning any more customers with their tactics in court.
September 17th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
LOL I love when people don’t get that this “RIAA rep” character is JOKING!!! Morons.
September 17th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
To huh: keep up that attitude and we will sue you too, so watch it.
September 17th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
I have to download it first to watch it!
September 17th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
“To huh: keep up that attitude and we will sue you too, so watch it.”
keep up that attitude we are already in the process of eradicating you parasites.
Watch it if you want but it will not make any difference.
You see we hold the money and I am sorry to inform you that ou can keep your shit because we don’t want it.
Did you read the latest stat? p2p up your sale down?
The bottom line is that we don’t need low life criminals like you.
And you know what? For the very few still stupid enought to still want your crap I spent 2k on a server with a terabytes of disk-space doing massive distribution of your shits just to bother bag of crap like you. Come after me Parasite and catch me if you can. But since you are probably an old hugly foggy out of shape who can not run, Bye bye RIAA drone.
Oh and nobody will bring you Oranges once you are in jail in Gatanamo you terrorist, But you will be able to listen to britney slute and madona crap full volume!
September 17th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
The poster directly above this one is a moron for having no sense of humor whatsoever.
September 18th, 2007 at 2:10 am
To the cretin with the rant before Angry Offender: thankyou for your comments. You have now been marked out for special attention by our legal team. You will shortly be receiving one of our coveted Settlement Letters in the post, with a much more substantial Settlement Offer than usual.
In your case, it might even be accompanied by a little prison time. For good measure, you know.
September 18th, 2007 at 2:11 am
To Angry Offender: hmm… not taking us seriously I see. I think a Standard Settlement Letter will be in order for yourself!
September 18th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
RIAA rep is a TROLL! Plain and simple. And he is being fed.
So sue me! Go on, I dare ya. I don’t think you have the balls
to do so.
September 18th, 2007 at 5:59 pm
Feeding the troll eh, Anonymous Coward? So what do you think you’re doing you idiot, hmmm??
A Special Edition Settlement Letter is in the post to you as I write this my friend.
September 18th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
wow. Even people “Pretending” to be the RIAA become retards themself…
this whole situation is retarded. the post, and the comments…
September 19th, 2007 at 5:44 am
Gonna nail you too, sucker.
September 20th, 2007 at 2:56 am
a lot of English Lyrics for download.
Lyrics,Lyrics searchable,Lyrics Database. 400000 Lyrics Included
http://www.lyrics-art.com
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:54 pm
oh please , pretty please come after me and my 20 – 2TB servers, just watch out for the traps since in past cases full subnets have been nuked … and i mean hardware nuked
then u get onto this neat little list where each time you come up your HW is fried again
anytime you feel u’re up to it RIAA troll … LMAO
HAHAHA ROFL
as for the rest of us … we’re winning and their stats are down