Is The Net At Fault For Illegal Filesharing?

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Is The Net At Fault For Illegal Filesharing?

Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 26, 2002 @08:44AM from the blame-society dept.

hbean writes: "Laywers for the file sharing programs Morpheus and Grokster are saying that if their client's programs are illegal for sharing copyrighted content, then so are the networks of ISPs that allow users to connect to each other -- check it out here. I wonder if these legal types are ever going to actually blame this on the actual people who are sharing ..."

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Great court case by bryan1945 · 2002-02-26 08:48 · Score: 4, Funny

"Next case"
"MPAA & RIAA vs. the Internet"

"Is the defendent ready?"
"011011001010111110010100110100...."

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1. Re:Great court case by athakur999 · 2002-02-26 09:17 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  The Internet could get Jeeves to represent itself.
  
  Judge: How do you plead?
  Jeeves: WebMD - Girl's Parents Plead for Gene Therapy to Resume
  Judge: What does that have to do with music piracy?
  Jeeves: Kid Rock Starves To Death: MP3 Piracy Blamed
  
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Re:related by HCase · 2002-02-26 08:50 · Score: 3, Funny

yeah, well, they do have the guns... :-)
In Other News... by unformed · 2002-02-26 08:52 · Score: 4, Funny

Lawyers for Morpheus have filed a lawsuit against God for ceating people who use software that uses the Internet that transfers data which was created by people who then sold it to the RIAA who are suing the aforementioned lawyers (for Morpheus) for violating their trademarks by transferring music that they have copyrighted ...
1. Re:In Other News... by gartogg · 2002-02-26 09:15 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  God has countersued the human race for copyright violations, making many thousands of copies of "Human Beings" which he said are not only infringing on his copyright, but also dilute his brand name, being inferior copies, "made in god's image" by much inferior beings.
  
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Does this mean... by Bookwyrm · 2002-02-26 08:56 · Score: 3, Funny

Does this mean we can file a lawsuit against lawyers who allow themselves to be hired to conduct frivolous or harassing lawsuits for allowing themselves to be used to conduct frivolous or harassing lawsuits, instead of the people hiring the lawyers?
Re:Yeah right by the_rev_matt · 2002-02-26 09:08 · Score: 4, Funny

You spelled Arkansas wrong, but that's OK because no one from there would know anyway.

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Re:Yeah right by kaimiike1970 · 2002-02-26 09:40 · Score: 3, Funny

You gave your dad a .gif for Christmas? I thought I was bad when I gave my dad a .jpg but at least mine had more than 256 colors...

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Nice logic...Let's try it the other way around... by tcc · 2002-02-26 09:44 · Score: 3, Funny

Have it your way, I'm suing every artists and their managers and their record label, that has it's files shared online, willingly or not, for not protecting their property the right way, thus devaluating the price of my CDs that I can't resale because everybody made cheap copies and nobody wants them anymore.

Hey.. that doesn't sound as stupid as I thought... any pro bono lawyers? MAKE MONEY FAST! :)

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