New Round of P2P Lawsuits from Hollywood

An anonymous reader writes "There is a new story on ZDNet about more lawsuits against P2P file sharers. The catch is that Hollywood is using the log files off Bit Torrent sites like Suprnova and LokiTorrent."

Comments

Re:Oh goody.

[Anonymous Coward]

Reality check. Providing copyrighted material for upload without explicit permission by the publisher is illegal. They are violating copyright law over which Federal government has full jurisdiction as provided by the Constitution. The proper course of action is to present suits against the infringers directly. Whether or not you think this is a valid medium or transmission is entirely irrelevant, the intent is clear.

If the publishers wish to utilize the medium to provide subscriptions to material which is DRM protected, so be it. Don't expect them to throw you free or cheap bones because you're a cheap shit. They don't owe you a damned thing. If the publishers wish to cover their ears and cry, "lah, lah, lah," so be it. It's their loss entirely and you have absolutely no legal or ethical recourse to make that decision for them.

You don't not arrest someone for stealing a car because they may have purchased a car in the past. The claim that these people are customers is bullshit; they are infringers, plain and simple. May the law smack them down accordingly. I'd love to see one of these law suits make it to the criminal courts just to watch you fuckwits get hit with the full extent of what copyright affords the publishers. You simply don't have a leg to stand on.

Re:Oh goody.

[jarich]

Then arrest them, and allow hollywood to sue them for actual damages done (not theoretical damages over people who may have theoretically bought a movie). How much money/physical goods did Hollywood have, that was then taken away by the filesharers? Allow them to be reimbursed for that.

When we catch shoplifters we don't just ask them to pay for the stuff they stole right? When you catch someone in your house stealing your stereo, do you just ask them to pay for it?

Stealing content online feels anonymous and somehow ~okay~. But it's not. It isn't civil disobedience. It's illegal and it's wrong. The penalties will exceed the cost of the unsold movie ticket to help impress upon people that it's a Bad Thing to get caught stealing.

And it's most certainly not anonymous.