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My answer to SOPA, preserve the Internet but appease the entertainment industry

by skadamat·14y ago·2 comments·view on hn ↗

I'm currently building a website which will crawl the web for public, illegal downloads of a particular book, film, or song and will display the download links + the takedown button for them so they can be requested to be removed.<p>Before anyone suggests that people will just use the site to search for pirated content / download it, I plan on charging a small fee and finding some way of authenticating that the person actually owns the copyright / affiliated with a company that owns it. Or I'm thinking of just showing a teaser of how many links I found online / maybe even potential websites I found them on, but not put direct links to them or something.<p>Would love to hear feedback!

The ability to authenticate that someone wanting to action a takedown actually owns the copyright would be paramount to a service like this working. It would be mayhem otherwise.

Once a user is signed up and authenticated would you restrict their search to only titles that they own the copyright to?

What good would a 'takedown button' do when the purpose of this bill was to create enforcement mechanisms against sites outside US jurisdiction. Your 'requests to be removed' would be ignored.