Cyber Sleuths vs. Secret Networks

amnfinch writes "I saw this article on BBC news and frankly, I was blown away. Just another example of the relentless campaign to treat file swappers as criminals when their 'crime' is murky at best." Sir Haxalot provides an article on the flip-side: "CNN has a story on 'exclusive' Peer to Peer networks, that require 'knowing the right people and having a wealth of content on your hard disk to get into the clique.'"

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Re:How wrong can you be?

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Why don't you try reading the guy's whole post you fucking knee-jerk idiot? He's sharing his own music, that he created and that he owns the copyright to.

How the hell did you manage to draw the morionic inference this equates to wanting to rape and torture people?

Why don't you try reading my whole post? I didn't criticise his sharing of his music, etc, I only pointed out that the "it's my house, I'll do what I want" approach isn't one that cuts any mustard with the law.

If you had read my post, you would have seen that I made no judgements about the parent post, or anyone else, I simply pointed out how the law works, and that the law applies to you within your home whether or not the law is sensible or ridiculous.

Did you miss the bit where I said "Just because it's your house it doesn't make you immune from the law - right or wrong - within it", or don't you understand what that sentence means?

If you're going flame someone for knee-jerking, or if you're going to call them moronic call someone a moron, please, make sure you're not being a moronic knee-jerker yourself.

Oh, and learn to read. It comes in handy sometimes.