European Piracy Crackdowns

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Posted by Hemos on Monday March 14, 2005 @02:00AM from the lots-of-haps-over-the-pond dept.

DigitumDei writes "The British Phonographic Industry has been busy over the last half year. Their recent success which netted them £50,000 in out of court settlements is certainly not going to be the end of it with the UK courts forcing 6 ISP's to release information on a further 31 file sharers. The ISPs have 14 days to comply. And once located will be offered the opporunity to settle out of court. 'We would particularly advise parents to check what their children are doing on the internet and make sure that they are not breaking the law by filesharing illegally,' said Geoff Taylor, BPI General Counsel." And in other news, the oldest and largest ISP in Sweden, Bahnnof was the subject of a raid that netted what looks to be the biggest results in Europe ever; as well papper writes "The Swedish organization Antipiratbyrån, which has nothing to do with Swedish goverment, recently got hacked. This was both revenge for and an attempt to stop similair raids like the one who took place this friday, against the ISP Banhof. During the raid several FTP-servers were seized. On the hacked site the responsible group, AUH, posts some private e-mails about an alleged informer and makes threats to release more information and of course there is the mandatory braging. The site is located at Antripiratbyran with a mirror elsewhere and a translated verison also online (although it seems unreachable at the moment). "

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Boycott by Laglorden · 2005-03-14 02:07 · Score: 5, Insightful

Appenrently they have the right break in and look through other peoples stuff if they think there are some "pirated" things there.

What happens if I don't want them looking through my private mail/pictures/documents?

They will not stop this stupid behavior unless we hit them where it really hurts, their wallets.

So, don't buy another CD, don't see another film, dont rent another DVD and don't buy any programs from the companys sponsoring "Antipiratbyrån" until they stop this foolishness!
1. Re:Boycott by datadriven · 2005-03-14 02:12 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  While I agree with what you're saying, I don't see it happening. People are sheep. Big business (e.g. MPAA, RIAA) will continue to take advantage of them because they don't know/care how to stand up to those institutions.
  
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Re:Good Grief... by SimReg · 2005-03-14 02:24 · Score: 5, Insightful

Funny, I always thought parents were there to raise their kids, teach them what is right and wrong (including legal and illegal), and correct them when they do something wrong/illegal.

Any parent who lets their kids continue doing illegal, wrong, or hurtful things is not parenting. So the government encouraging parents to actually be involved with their kids lives is a Good Thing.
Re:They're finally going after individual infringe by wild_berry · 2005-03-14 03:05 · Score: 5, Insightful

Individual infringers are somebody else's problem:

They sued the mp3 codec clones, but I didn't speak out because I use ogg vorbis,
They sued the pirates of Windows, and I didn't speak out, 'cause I use Linux,
They sued over CSS, but I didn't speak out because it wasn't in my country,
They sued the music and movie downloaders, but I didn't speak out because I used a different filesharing network,
They sued me, but there was no-one left to speak out for me.