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King Kong vs. Movie Pirates
Caoz writes "The New York Times is running an interesting article about movie piracy with Peter Jackson providing some comments. There a couple of comments that I thought were surprising. Like an executive admitting that file sharers are not the biggest threat to Hollywood. From the article: 'There is a very dark, black cloud in this game. It's not in the hands of kids who live next door to you; it's organized groups and organized crime.' Why are they suing bitorrent users then?"
Because it's a civil matter and they're dealing with people who are violating their copyright.
They may not be making money from it, but that doesn't give them a free pass to ignore copyright.
Right, because crime syndicates occupy themselves so much with single-issue lobbying to national and international governmental bodies.
"Bollocks. If I were to take something from a shop, then the shop can't sell it to someone else, and thus can be said to have lost not only revenue but also an asset."
Okay, now do the one about "it's not piracy unless you're on a boat and have an eye patch."
"Identity theft," "theft of service," "stealing your thunder," "stolen kisses," et cetera: the imprecise nature of the English language must drive many Slashdotters up the wall. For the benefit of those same folks, I should explain that "up the wall" is a figure of speech and should not be interpreted literally.
Sitting in my day care, the art is decopainted.
Here's a solution to avoid being sued... move to Canada!
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In Canada, a federal court judge ruled that it would be a violation of existing privacy laws for any organization to harass ISP's for account information linked to IP address's.
It seems like you Americans are losing more and more of your privacy and personal freedoms (all in the name of fighting invisible terrorizing threat to your country) I guess the land of the free has just moved north
I don't really see how an individual using bit torrent can even be classified as a distributer of copyrighted material... i know this may sound like splitting hairs, but they way bittorrent works is that a file is split into thousands of chunks like a puzzle and everyone in the network simply trades those pieces around till you have a full set and can assemble the pieces... a single individual downloading from a torrent RARELY distributes an entire version of what they are downloading... infact, often you may upload the same chuck of data over and over again... but that chuck of data can hardly be classifed as the whole thing... it would be like telling someone to try to make out the picture from one piece of a puzzle... the picture is copyrighted. So because you gave one piece to your buddy, you need to pay the MPAA 6 thousand dollers.