That would not necessarily be a bad thing. When almost all countries of the world are on the list, the list loses its meaning.

My thought was mainly that there's no point in starting a witch hunt, just because the company is in the media business. I'm sure there are actually good companies in that business, and hating them all, just for the sake of hating them won't improve the situation. Having a few agreeable companies that the geeky public would like, would probably be to everybodys benefit.

I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, since mistakes can happen. But this is a big fuckup, and as seen, it aggravates the already hostile feelings toward the media industry. So they need to come up with a really good reason why this happened, and something more than words to make sure it doesn't happen again, before they have my sympathies.

I'm sure this in not the only video with wrong automatic tagging. So they could e.g. go through all videos which are tagged with having their music. I don't care if it's 1k, 10k or 100k. If the music was actually not theirs, they will contact the owner of the video, and give them any ad revenue they have gotten for that video, and release all claims to the video. That would go a long way to convince me that they did not act maliciously, that it was a honest mistake.

And yes, I do agree that there should be big fines for wrongly claiming that the video contains your copyrighted material. Hell, I'd even make that a some % of the revenue of the company.

I think it's good and interesting that you actually follow the discussion about your company on social media. This gives you a chance of setting right some misconceptions, but it would help a lot if you would actually give enough information to do so.

For example, in the article it is mentioned, that even after a review this had been flagged as your material. Could you explain this? Should this not involve a manual step of actually looking through the video in question? I'm pretty sure if that if this was done manually, this situation would never have come up.

I think that's needlessly critical. Of course there are great human disasters which don't fall under the umbrella of /. Just because this happened to be one which also has a major affect on the tech industry, doesn't mean the humane part of this is any less tragic. Still, people come to /. for tech news, and this is an interesting analysis on how the price of the drives have been affected, and that is what /. should report.

Lumping everybody together as basement-dwelling cold-hearted bastards who only care about cheap hardware is just as narrow-minded as you claim people reporting/reading this are. In fact, from my experience it seems that people reading /. are often more aware of international social issues than average.

I came hee to post a link to RIAA Radar, but domain is not active. I hope it's just a problem with forgetting to renew the site. With all the labels the big labels own, it's hard to know if the album you're buying is actually from a small label. RIAA Radar is (was) a great way to check that out.

Did they really just write that, really?. While we're at our peak of evolutionary misconceptions, why not sign it all away to Intelligent Design and say god wanted a better insect because it was christmas and Jebus didn't have any friends to play with.

We actually just got new server hardware. The power supplies are rated for 92%+ and in practice, we measured the efficiency to be almost 95%. So while our other points are valid, I think the losses from power supplies have gone down a lot.

We're talking about possible encounters with alien races. How could we have a slightest clue if humans are selfish or not? Compared to what? We might be the most benevolent thing seen in the entire universe, or we might something completely different.

I'm sorry, 1-3 year old servers without disks? While I agree that they most likely can be used, their value is fractions of their price as new. So unless you manage to sell the whole lot at one go to somebody, it's probably cheaper to sell them as scrap.

This is of course wasteful, if you consider that the servers have lifetime left. But it might be the cheapest/most profitable option overall.

I'm not saying that the music industry is right in this matter, but to be fair, there are several online stores that sell DRM free mp3s, have a good selection of music, and have reasonable prices. For example Equaldreams, Meteli.net and Radio Rock store. These have pretty much killed all my music pirating. Sadly we don't have access to the Amazon mp3 store, which I loved, but these are okish.

The bigger problem is that you really can't get tv series/movies in a similar way.

If you actually read the posts on the YRO articles, without grouping them all together as copyright bashing pirates, only wanting to get their movies, games and porn for free, you might have a slightly different view on the slashdotters.

And even when I use the term "slashdotters", I know there's a huge spread of people with different ideas. However, I think that in general, the people on slashdot are more aware of piracy, and probably buy more content than the average person.

Almost all posts (including mine), have stated that they will gladly pay for content, as long as they are not faced with draconian limits. For music I think we are in pretty good shape. Services like Amazon mp3s give great value for money without restrictions. I myself spend aroun 50€ / month there. With games it's really varied and movies and tv series are in pretty bad shape in Europe, It's almost a choise of getting the DVD or pirating it (with some exceptions)

The fact that people on /. are annoyed at content publishers for placing horrible restictions on their products is not a cry for more piracy. People here are usually more tech savvy, and would like to use their products in more ways than a "normal" person, but many times that is not possible. And then when the content producers lobby legal systems and sue people for completely unreasonable amounts, no wonder people here are pissed off.

You are painting things just as black and white as MAFIAA, and you're modded insightful? You think people don't want to support artist, developers and creators!? No wonder you post as AC, if this was modded "-1 Troll" as it should be, I wouldn't even reply to something this idiotic.

If it flies there, it'll fly back too. And if this takes hours and hours, you can just as well screw up the return flight.

If mercury does that to planes, then anyone who comes up with methods of attacking planes should. Which means the TSA airport crew should know.