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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
You hold copyrights? Do your DD. You issue the take-down requests. You take them to court if they refuse. Protecting your copyright is your job, and not society's.
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A newspaper or Broadcaster is a single entity to sue. It's simple, so newspapers, magazines, TV, and radio only break copyright by accident (apart from the part violation allowed by US Government one on USA Radio and streaming*).
These Internet publishers simply pretend regular laws don't apply and that the users are the publishers. This is a lie enabled by the USA "common carrier" doctrine.
This forum polices copyright infringement of uploads. Why should Facebook and YouTube be allowed to ignore it?
Any ordinary business or individual doing what Google and Facebook does would be shut down.
Absolutely the Copyright Holders should pursue the violators. That's why I think DMCA and DRM are evil. These big companies are too big for most copyright holders to sue because copyright violation is most countries is a Civil Law matter, not Criminal Law.
[* Before 1996, the owners of copyright in sound recordings in the United States did not enjoy any rights of public performance but after the amendment a limited right of public performance by means of a digital audio transmission was granted to sound recordings. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performing_rights and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._ASCAP It's not as bad as before 1996]