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Danish Anti-Piracy Organization Bills P2P Users
faaaz writes "The danish anti-piracy organisation Antipiratgruppen has billed approximately 150 p2p users an amount of up to $14,000 each for sharing copyrighted material. The organisation says 'Pay up, or we'll sue!'" There's also a Reuters article.
I thought P2P was supposed to be decentralized and less traceable? Hmmmmm?
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
Maybe it would be a good idea for them to sell the content they've downloaded on eBay to raise funds for paying the bills or hiring a lawyer... Yeah, I'm sure that'd solve all their problems.
-- "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
Even if this was the beginning of something, Denmark is like, really small, right? It would probably only take one nuke to clean their clock.
BTW, have we started kicking Iraqi ass yet? Gas prices are way high, here. They need to start coming down soon. I'm itching for a cross-country road trip in my new H2. It'll be sweet when we own all that oil. 10 cents a freakin' gallon, man.
(Note: The above was sarcasm. A little bit of irony, too. FTHI.)
See what happens when you try to think off the medication?
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
I'm sorry, but the only reason I even bothered signing with a label was to SELL MY STUFF. Make money, that's all. I could care less about sharing my music. I write for me, no one else. I only allowed my songs to be recorded and pressed is because of the existence of copyright, and the ability to enforce it in a legal manner. If there were no such concept in this country, I wouldn't have even bothered with going into the business of selling intellectual property. I derive great personal enjoyment from writing and recording music. But when it comes to someone else wanting it, they better pay me. It's as simple as that. If you don't like it, kindly fuck off.
Now there are some that say my music isn't worth paying for. No problem, that's your opinion. Like I said before, I don't write to impress or please other people, I write to satisfy ME, MYSELF. Other people's opinions of my work is unimportant to me, I could really care less if you think my work is absolute dreck. But if you want a copy of it, you better fork out money. It's as simple as that.
-When you infringe on a copyright, you are depriving no one of anything but just that -- a copyright.
No, you deprive the rightful/legal owner of the copyright the revenue that illegal copy would have bestowed upon them.
No, you haven't understood. The law does not agree with you. When you STEAL something you have 100% take deprive someone of thing. When you copy an mp3 you have deprive them of NOTHING. Because they person might NOT have bought it.
That is why it is considered theft.
Its only considered theft by those of low IQ.(or low moral)
That's why it's not only illegal, but immoral.
It seems the immoral part is keeping wanting payment for the same job over and over...
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating