Seems rather underhanded to me. Their trying to control the flow of information, not really the flow of the content. I even saw situations where it's become, in essence "illegal" to even talk about copying content (even the legal copying).
Well I've thought up a solution. If google, bing, yahoo, and others band together in an effort to stop copyright infringement. But instead of blocking all of piratebay.org, or other file-sharing sites (which would block the legal downloads) Take the copyright take down notices like this part:
Sound recording "Your Love Is My Drug" by Ke$ha. The owner of this
copyright work is Sony Music, a BPI member.
Now remove/block all searches related to Ke$ha. Problem solved.
I say if these companies want to stay in the dark ages then let them. Take them off the grid completely. It will strengthen sites like ccmixter.org, jamendo.com, magnatunes.com and youtube.com, and allow for a better community.
