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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
Yes, TPB has a different approach. They also have the word "Pirate" in their name. But the others have removed URLs.
And the Copyright Office charges $135 for Copyright infringement claims, so your complaint is that H33T requires less money? |
This isn't charging to file a legal claim, it is charging to process the equivalent of a DMCA takedown.
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The content available on the H33T website is extensive. As at 6 July 2012, its index listed 241,477 torrent files. Dr Price's analysis of its distribution between different categories of content indicates that 21.04% of torrent files available on the H33T website fell within the music category. Dr Price has then analysed the proportion of this content which is commercially available (and therefore highly likely to be protected by copyright). In the music category, 97.1% of the torrent files related to content which is commercially available. Applying these percentages to the total number of torrents available as at 6 July 2012, this analysis implies that 50,806 music torrents were listed on the H33T website, of which around 49,330 were commercially available.
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So that would be just under $2.5 million dollars to remove all the links to infringing music (just music, nothing else) on H33T.
Does that sound like a scheme they genuinely expect content holders to take part in?
Google process something like 4 million DMCA takedowns a week.
At the same rate of charging, that would be $10 billion dollars a year.