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Korean Brothers Arrested For File-Sharing Site

Posted by timothy on from the pissumnida dept.

HarlanC writes: "This story discusses the arrest of two Korean brothers who run a website [warning, page requires Korean language support] that allows peer-to-peer file sharing. Note that the Recording Industry Association of Korea reports local companies lost $154 million in sales in 2000 due to use of the program, even though sales increased to $31.5 million in total sales in 2000 from $29.2 million in 1999."

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  1. Re:No. Not my definition. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    >Are you unaware that our founding fathers >debated this topic as well? But the founding fathers have been discredited, since they were slavers and druggies with no respect for legal authority.

  2. Re:Sad... by Sehnsucht · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If guns are outlawed, only the outlaws will have guns. Where does that leave us? You can't just outlaw them from existance. Better to let everyone (not literally - children/people who can't be responsible for themselves and known murderers probably shouldn't be legally allowed to have them, for example) have em - that way the outlaws can be afraid of being shot back at, instead of having no fear at all.

  3. Re:Translation: Criminals got busted. by An+Ominous+Coward · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    It's simply amazing that some slashbots are in such a state of holier-than-thou denial that a simple statement of fact is modded down as a "troll." Of course they are criminials! So am I, and you say you are as well, but so many people here are too childish to admit that their "can't touch me -- information wants to be free" fantasy is not how the world works.

    I made more than I did last year too, and if you tried to steal from me, i'd kick your ass..

    I'm glad I stopped the company I work for from simply stealing a few Propaganda tiles as backgrounds in our software just because "it's only wallpaper files".

  4. Re:Where does it end? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    You're right. The Revolutionary War (whose, btw?) was started over injustices less significant than being prohibited from illegally copying CDs.