The Pirate Bay Shut Down Rumors: Once Site Goes Down, US Library Of Congress Might Be The Next Piracy Haven
C. de LacyThere are speculations and rumors regarding the eventual demise of The Pirate Bay, following after Kickass. How will the US Library of Congress be the next piracy hub for people if all these happens?
Torrent Freak reported over the weekend that U.S Copyright Office could be going in the wrong direction with their planned expansion. This would require musicians and record labels to submit their digital content to the Library of Congress, which in turn, may put their materials at risk for piracy.
If all other popular and functional torrent sites like The Pirate Bay goes down one after another, people may have their last resort on a potentially bad move from the government.
With this planned change, the RIAA warned the government that it may open a way for the materials to be easily exploited and put on piracy websites.
Portion of the proposed change was to make the submitted content to be available to the public. Everybody who will access the site will get access to millions of artists' musical works for free.
In a written statement from RIAA, they mentioned that the music industry is already overrun by digital piracy.
"If sound recordings available through the Library - whether on-premises or online - were managed in a way that patrons could use those recordings for uploading to pirate websites and unlicensed streaming services or if the Library's collection of sound recordings were made electronically available to the public at large, that could have a devastating impact on our member companies' revenues."
RIAA also stated the possibility of the Library of Congress being hacked. At this day and age, server hacks can happen in a heartbeat and people are getting craftier by the minute.
"In an age where servers are hacked on a regular basis, no electronic server is secure. Government servers are no different," the RIAA writes.
"Given the inherent vulnerability of servers believed to be secure, we question the need for anyone to have remote access to a server that stores commercially valuable digital sound recordings." RIAA finally remarks.
If the Copyright Office will still continue, RIAA highly suggests that record labels that they find themselves the best anti-piracy security measures to avoid millions of revenue loss.
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