Cary Sherman, CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America, testified before Congress last week on “The Future of Audio.”
Sherman published a statement of his speech, in which “he stresses that online piracy must be stopped and one of the ways to do this is by having search engines, like Google and Bing, censor any results that could lead users to sites with illegally obtained copyrighted material,” reports CNET.
“Thank you RIAA, this is great news for us!” responded The Pirate Bay on its blog, suggesting that such a crackdown would increase traffic to its own search engine.
The Pirate Bay ends its blog post sarcastically: “Hugs’n’kisses from your pals at The Pirate Bay — soon to be the biggest media search engine in the world!”
“Google said it was tackling piracy by removing millions of URLs containing copyrighted material monthly. The RIAA says that these numbers are inflated,” explains CNET. The RIAA also gave Google an overall grade of “incomplete” in December, suggesting the search engine still receives financial benefits from pirate sites.
However, the organization believes Google is making an effort. “Let us be clear: there is no doubt that Google has taken productive steps to combat content theft online and we are one of many that have commended these improvements,” the RIAA wrote in April. “These efforts are encouraging and give us hope that Google is truly committed to working with those of us that produce the content that Google users want to see and hear.”
Cary Sherman, CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America, testified before Congress last week on “The Future of Audio.”
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