Paramount Sues Ohio Man For $100,000

ematic writes "A hapless tech-novice finds himself in a US$100,000 lawsuit with Paramount Pictures for allegedly uploading the movie, Coach Carter, to eDonkey. Paramount had the police seize his four computers, but nothing was found. The tech-novice maintains his innocence, and contends that he is a victim of a drive-by upload. According to the ChannelCincinnati story, the victim 'is either a slick film pirate or an unwitting victim of someone who fits that description.'"

Comments

Re:Tech Novice?

[ilyaaohell]

I find it bizarre that, just because certain people are not fans of the concept of intellectual property as it applies to movie downloads, they automatically assume that someone who is accused of breaking these laws is innocent.

He could be lying, you know. Hell, wouldn't YOU lie about your technical knowledge if you were faced with a $100,000 fine?

"The man was dead when I got there, I swear!"

Re:Piece of cake ...

[loki1978]

Just one simple question that i hope you will take the time to answer:

Do you consider your way of spelling cool?
Is this, how the in-crowd does it today?
Do you mark yourself as up-to-date-hip person, by spelling wrong on purpose?

I really hope you, the author, can give me some insight into your
motivation to use this horrible and utterly wrong spelling. There has
to be a good reason for you to do this and i am curious to read about it.

Re:What the...

[craXORjack]

If you changed your vote because a baseball fan wrote a letter to the commisioner protesting the increasing commercial distraction then you are an idiot. Furthermore, if you had even read the article you linked to you would have known that 'U.S. Rep George Nethercutt, a Washington Republican who is a former part-owner of the Greensboro Bats and the Michigan Battle Cats minor league teams, sent a letter to Selig protesting the decision.' These protesters had their names dropped by the writer because of their celebrity not because it had anything to do with any particular political persuasion. Certainly hundreds of fans sent letters protesting this bit of idiocy. Posting links to totalitarianism and oligarchy was nonsensical and a waste of your effort. They are not related to baseball. And if you are some ad salesman who wants to see people distracted from the game by ads on top of ads on top of ads, then again you are an idiot. Good day to you.

Re:Piece of cake ...

[cduffy]

I guess the lack of class must not extend to using slang and shorthand such as '/.' and 'n00bs' then.

"n00bs" would indeed have been classless had its use in the context of an otherwise-well-written message not come to implicitly parody how t3h haxx0rs communicate among themselves. The acceptability of the abberiation '/.' is harder to explain -- but nonetheless, it is typically acceptable; it doesn't offend me or anyone else I know, whereas "u", "ur", "gr8", and such do. Put it down to some arbitrary meme if it makes you feel happier -- but even if the meme genuinely is arbitrary (and I'm not really inclined to believe so), that doesn't make following it any less of a social norm.

How very convenient for you.

My ability to follow norms isn't a matter of luck. I've been around for a while.

...especially for something as petty and inane to a technical discussion as prose...

Good writing is important in technical forums. How To Ask Questions The Smart Way is in my experience accurate in its assertion that those who write carelessly are often observed to be careless in other endevours as well, and that those who write poorly are consequently given less respect on mailing lists and such.