Oooohhhhhh, dangerous attack on knowledge! Why don't they sue YouTube directly instead? Oh, right, others already tried. And FAILED. Because of Section 230. And Wikipedia probably told them to piss off when they asked for the removal of the list of YT rippers (which you can easily Google up anyway).The takedown request wants a Wikipedia page removed from Google’s search results because it talks about YouTube rippers, and offers a detailed comparison of them. Links to the software are incidental, appearing only at the foot of the page as references. The demand that Google should de-list links to the page in its search results is a thinly disguised but dangerous attack on knowledge. The implicit message is nobody should be allowed to talk about, or even know about things that the copyright world disapproves of. It’s the logical conclusion of Big Content’s view that everything online should be subordinate to its pursuit of total control there.
The article they're bitching about has existed since 2011. On the talkpage:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Comp ... _this_Page
PS "Because Music" is a very obscure label. They have a Wikipedia article, which says:
Let me guess: nearly all the back catalog they acquired was already posted on YouTube. (If it's London Records back catalog, it's OLD.) And they are angry they can't resell copies of old material to the nostalgia market or what have you. Good luck with the groovy complaint, assholes.In 2017, Because acquired the catalogues of over 60 artists from Warner Music Group, including Mano Negra, The Beta Band,[6] and most of London Records.[7]
