News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch has only been on Twitter for two weeks now, and I’m now dubbing him the new @ShitMyDadSays. He holds nothing back on the social site, and has already stirred up some stuff by admitting MySpace screwed the pooch.
Today? Murdoch made it clear that he’s a supporter of SOPA and targets Google as a main offender in piracy. Check out his latest tweets below:
So Obama has thrown in his lot withSilicon Valley paymasters who threaten allsoftware creators with piracy, plain thievery. -
— Rupert Murdoch(@rupertmurdoch) January 14, 2012
Piracy leader is Google who streams movies free, sells advts around them.No wonder pouring millions into lobbying.
— Rupert Murdoch(@rupertmurdoch) January 14, 2012
Clearly, Murdoch is referring to Google’s YouTube product, which at times has come under fire for allowing copyrighted content to live on its servers. However, the company has put in numerous technical measures to stop these type of infractions. What has Murdoch so upset today? We’re not totally sure, but more than likely it was today’s announcement that the White House isn’t too fond of SOPA.
We also know that Murdoch has a history of disliking Google and its search practices, having accused the company of stealing his content.
This has to be a clear contradiction made for the media to display and people to believe? This is a great article Drew, as to all of yours I appreciate reading, but I have to bring up a point here which consists of "what if this is a method of determent?" What if he got on twitter 2 weeks ago to start controversy so when the time comes, behind closed doors as always, Murdoch partners or sides with Google?...Try:
http://www.quora.com/Christina-W-Ward/Googles-Partnership-with-the-World-Bank
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LikeHe also has a small penis
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LikeI don' know SOPA in details, but for me regarding piracy, if the basic principles are :
1) against piracy centers and not end users (always centers in piracy due to the need for catalogs and search amongst other things, "peer to peer" also a lot of hypocrisy in the terms and everybody knows it)
2) No monitoring at all of end users flow, collect of their IPs a formal complaint from somebody about a user acting as a center
3) All procedures are legal and public
Then it clearly is the right way to do it, not to forget that if piracy doesn't create any revenues for authors and creators, it does create some (and not a little) for some people :
http://owni.fr/2011/12/14/secret-megaupload-streaming-kim-schmitz-david-robb/
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10626044
Note : above more developed below (but in French) :
http://iiscn.wordpress.com/2011/05/15/piratage-hadopi-etc/
And "zero piracy" doesn't matter in anyway (not more than school kids exchanging files), problem is when it becomes the default and easiest access method for works and publications.
But on this, in order to have a real "user experience" added value in buying instead of pirating, and this in a non quasi monopolistic environment (or with just 2 or three "monsters"), clearly something like below would be required :
http://iiscn.wordpress.com/2011/05/15/concepts-economie-numerique-draft/
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LikeAttention seeking tactics.. At this age? Seriously.
http://www.engine021.com/massive-online-collaboration-recaptcha-the-captcha
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LikeRupert has a charity to find lost kittens - he can't be all bad.
http://mankabros.com/blogs/chairman/2011/05/24/rupert-murdochs-special-charity/
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LikeJill Kennedy He makes a living (actually, he makes dozens of human live's worth of livings...) out of directing other people to spread misinformation and lies in the interests of conservative politics, denigrating and cheapening the lives of the vast majority of people. He actively works to make the world a more miserable and impoverished place, creating conditions of alienation and anti-social ethics. In turn, this ultimately leads to the kind of people who abandon or abuse kittens. I would say that when you add up the human and kitten lives he works to help destroy, it probably outweighs the kittens that are found. So you see, in this way, Rupert Murdoch probably kills more kittens than he ever saves.
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LikeOh here we go - according to an estimate in the book "Who Gets What?" (Stilwell & Jordan, 2006) he makes $24 million per year.Average working wage is about $50,000 per year, so Murdoch makes 480 people's livings. My, what a mighty superman, to do the work of 480 hard-working people. How does he find the time?
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LikeIf he's going to post inflammatory posts like that, he should at least link to some "full length" pirated Hollywood movies on YouTube that Google is hosting and selling advertisements around...because honestly, I can't find them. Some clips, yeah, but calling them a "leader"? Someone's never heard of thepiratebay...
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Like"pouring millions into lobbying"; I think Google is just trying to keep up... That's probably one of the most hypocritical things I've ever heard...
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Likefuck murdoch. he pirates privacy and thinks nothing of it.
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LikeObama didn't throw in with silicon Valley. He is in an election year, SOPA and PIPA would alienate him with the 18 to 35 year old crowd that got him elected the last time around. He is on the razors edge now in the polls. Expect him to sign this into law if he gets re-elected.
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LikeSilicon Valley paymasters ?
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LikeHarrison Weber The man is delusional.
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LikeDrew OlanoffHarrison Weber What's the percentage of content on YouTube that's pirated again?
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LikeBrandon MendelsonDrew OlanoffHarrison Weber What's the percentage of content in his papers that's infringing or stolen again? Pictures, paraphrasing blogger, quoting from people voice mail ...
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