Between asking for millions for trivial acts of piracy, and asking potentially for trillions in more serious cases, they've shown that they're not only completely disconnected from reality, but totally unheeding of the actual effects of their litigation.
Because most journals are kept offline, most readers thus far have resorted to piracy either by asking for a photocopy from a friend or downloading the journals from pirate research sites.
On China and piracy: China has been asking for help from Viacom.
Videohybrid, a site we first linked to in April as part of a broader post on online video piracy, has relaunched with a new version that is just asking for trouble.
They said they were not asking for new copyright laws, just better prosecution of the fast-growing number of digital piracy cases.
[World Business, Section W.] Record Concerns Sue to End Piracy The record industry has filed lawsuits against four college students, accusing them of unauthorized copying of digital music and asking for billions of dollars in damages.
A side-effect of the piracy clamp-down has been a spate of law firms chasing people it believes to have unlawfully downloaded pornographic films and asking for one-off fines.
Wadsworth believes the reason negotiations for Virgin Media's proposed music service have stalled is not due to the amount of money the record labels asked for, but the anti-piracy measures the labels wanted the ISP to implement.
Accusing the four of having "taken a network created for higher learning and academic pursuits and converted it into an emporium of music piracy," the lawsuits ask for $150,000 for each of the recordings listed on the students' Web sites, but recording industry officials acknowledge that having made their point, they expect to settle out of court.
