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Online Groups Behind Bulk of Bootleg Films (& Games)

Posted by Hemos on from the interesting-stories dept.

xasper8 writes "First it was the RIAA, now Hollywood is cracking the legal whip on online piracy." There's a better article about this in the recent issue of Wired that gets more in depth on this. Basically, good background on how file releases get made. <update> Yes, we did have Wired link yesterday as well. My bad.

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  1. Re:Disturbed by KiloByte · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ugh, how can you compare something that causes people to completely fuck up their lives (drugs) to something that is a supposed to be a compromise between greed and the flow of works?

    Drugs: give people (criminals) money for fucking up people's lives. Financial benefit for bad acts.
    Copyright: gives people (artists) money for creating new works. Financial benefit for good acts.

    Thus, in principle, copyright potentially can be a good thing. It is supposed to give fair compensation to the artists -- the thing that that compensation is not given but instead seized by **AA/record labels/bean counters/etc/etc is a different story. Of course, an unhindered flow of works is something much more beneficial to the society, and it used to lie at the base of our culture for millenia.

    Drugs are something inheretly bad. Piracy is just working around a misused system.

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  2. Re:Disturbed by the_mad_poster · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    In the event that you are WILLFULLY and with the INTENT TO PROFIT from the process of reproducing copyrighted works, it is a misdemeanor if you distribute or reproduce 1 or more copies of one or more copyrighted works with a total retail value of more than $1000.

    In the event that you are WILLFULLY and with the INTENT TO PROFIT from the process of reproducing copyrighted works, it is a felony if you distribute or reproduce 10 or more copies of one or more copyrighted works with a total retail value of more than $2500.

    In the event you do not fall under these criminal statutes, for example, because you are not atttempting to profit from the distribution or copying, you cannot be dragged into a criminal trial. You can, of course, be sued shitless.

    Or, to put it more bluntly: you are an idiot. As is typical of a slashbot (i.e. "idiot"), you have no idea what you're talkling about it, but that's not stopping you from pounding your manly chest as if you had a clue or a point.

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  3. Not Hurting Until... by angedinoir · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Putting something in your own body does not, under just about every conceivable circumstance imaginable, force anything on anyone besides yourself. You are not stealing, damaging their property, or hurting them.

    ...Until you completely ruin your body and have to go into hospitals paid by taxes, go into rehab paid by taxes, go on welfare and live off of my income.

    Thanks for mooching, asshole, please come again.

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