‘First-ever’ online ‘copyright crackdown’
p2pnet view P2P:- “Your content is copied all over the Web, siphoning valuable audience and significant dollars away from your authorized channels” says Attributor of its FairShare Guardian, claiming it “continuously monitors the Web for copies of your content and removes those that violate your anti-piracy policy”.
That’s quite a promise.
The cartels have been twisting themselves into knots trying, and consistently failing, to achieve the same thing.
“Specify the content or titles you want to monitor through a secure file transfer, xml feed or other means”, it says. “FairShare then scans billions of web sites, cyberlockers, blogs and social networks on a continuous basis and reports back where and how your content is copied on other sites.”
Then, “Stop unauthorized usage in its tracks” because “FairShare Guardian’s enforcement team will implement your anti-piracy policies and remove unauthorized usage of your content across the Web, sending you regular reports on the effectiveness of your policy.”
Ahhh. An enforcement team !
Hold that thought, and while you do, “A coalition of traditional and digital publishers this month will launch the first-ever concerted crackdown on copyright pirates on the web, initially targeting violators who use large numbers of intact articles”, says Reflections of a Newsosaur, continuing:
“Details of the crackdown were provided by Jim Pitkow, the chief executive of Attributor, a Silicon Valley start-up that has been selected as the agent for several publishers who want to be compensated by websites that are using their content without paying licensing fees.
“In a telephone interview yesterday, Pitkow declined to identify the individual publishers in his coalition, but said they include ‘about a dozen’ organizations representing wire services, traditional print publishers and ‘top-tier blog networks’.”
Initially “violators who use large numbers of intact articles” will be the “first offending sites to be targeted”, says Slashdot.
And in FairShare Guardian’s sights will be “those using 80% or more of copyrighted stories more than 10 times per month”, says the post, going on >>>
In the first stage of a multi-step process, online publishers identified by Silicon Valley startup Attributor will be sent a letter informing them of the violations and urging them to enter into license agreements with the publishers whose content appears on their sites. In the second stage Attributor will ask hosting services to take down pirate sites. ‘We are not going after past damages’ from sites running unauthorized content says Jim Pitkow, the chief executive of Attributor. The emphasis, Pitkow says is ‘to engage with publishers to bring them into compliance’ by getting them to agree to pay license fees to copyright holders in the future.
If “copyright pirates” balk, “Attributor will request the major search engines to remove offending pages from search results and will ask banner services to stop serving ads to pages containing unauthorized content”, says Reflections of a Newsosaur, adding:
” The search engines and ad services are required to immediately honor such requests by the federal Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
“If the above efforts fail, Attributor will ask hosting services to take down pirate sites. Because hosting services face legal liability under the DCMA if they do not comply, they will act quickly, said Pitkow.”
..… and identi.ca
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Reflections of a Newsosau, continuing – First web copyright crackdown coming, March 4, 2010
Slashdot – Web Copyright Crackdown On the Way, March 5, 2010
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March 5th, 2010 at 2:19 pm
Can you say Arts + Labs? LOL
March 7th, 2010 at 12:58 am
So let me see if i have this correct … They are a company that makes money from Piracy ?
March 7th, 2010 at 2:34 am
What happens when there outside the US?
What happens its hosted on private sites?
./sigh another sad attempt to end piracy.
March 7th, 2010 at 2:35 am
and another way to make money of piracy.