Media mogul Rupert Murdoch joined Twitter less than a month ago, and he’s already caused a great deal of controversy what with calling Google a ‘piracy leader’, whilst he also came clean on the MySpace debacle, admitting that they screwed up in every way.
In his latest tweet, Murdoch has fanned the copyright flames further, aligning the phone-hacking scandal that has swamped the UK arm of his media empire with the recent copyright debate stirred by the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
No excuses for phone hacking. No argument. No excuses either for copyright stealing, but plenty of ignorant argument!
— Rupert Murdoch(@rupertmurdoch) January 23, 2012
The proposed SOPA bill has now been withdrawn by Republican Lamar Smith after widespread opposition – including from the Whitehouse – and it seems that Murdoch isn’t overly happy about much of the debate surrounding it.
He had previously singled Google out for his attentions, which he said streamed movies for free and sold adverts around them, alluding to YouTube’s content. This is despite Google putting systems in place to curtail copyright infringement on the video-streaming site.
Murdoch has a history of disliking Google in particular, and has previously accused it of stealing his content.
Where is this obvious parallel between invading peoples privates lives (including the relatives of victims and the victims themselves) and copyright infringement?
That man needs to seriously readjust his worldview.
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LikeI love the intentional misuse of words the media and proponents have used over and over these last few decades when it comes to copyright.
Notice how how Rupert Murdoch says "Copyright Stealing", when the correct term is of course "Copyright Infringement", but that isn't likely to get the sort of emotional response he wants, so he says "Copyright Stealing", so you relate it to someone stealing your car.
When it is an infringement, like when you speed, or jaywalk, this constantly happens, don't let them fool you people, it's not theft, it's not stealing, it is copying and infringing, they are NOT the same thing and don't let them make you think that they are.
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Likebd see Words from a thief.
Its is stealing plain and simple. You might like to downgrade it by using the word "infringement" but "Infringing" on content paid for by someone else is stealing. End of argument.
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