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Grokster Launches Fear Campaign
An anonymous reader writes "Slyck is reporting on Grokster's new scare tactic. Suddenly it's become taboo to head over to Grokster.com. In a transparent attempt to scare potential P2P users, Grokster.com has reinforced its anti-P2P sentiment. The visitor's IP address is clearly displayed in large font on the Grokser's homepage while indicating the address was logged."
My IP address is 127.0.0.127
Reaaal accurate.
As for your first paragraph: well, maybe. IANAL, but it seems very tenuous to me. It seems similar to going to a murder trial and presenting a log showing the accused visited a web site that talked about shovels,
Bullshit. Most people use p2p programs to download content without the copyright owner's permission. You can cite as many iso downloads as you want, unless you can show me some real statistics that show 51% of downloaders do so with the copyright owner's permission, I don't believe that. (If you wish to not believe me that most people downloading on p2p do so without the owner's permission, you're welcome to do so). As such, it's more like going to a gun store and looking around for a gun (one that while occassionally used for hunting deer, is primarily used for killing humans). I think that would certainly be admissable and be important as evidence (wouldn't make or break the case though).
As for saavy users mounting a defence. Well if they found themselves being sued with the fact they visited the website as evidence, then they certainly would need to explain it.
So if one invates Kuwait/Irak/Iran/Whatever and takes oil from them this is wrong because mother nature owns the oil?