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Court Rules Burning Porn = Making Porn
An anonymous reader writes "An appeals court has upheld the prosecution of a Michigan man who was charged with production of child pornography after downloading and burning pornographic pictures from the Internet. The pictures were created by a Russian website that the man was not affiliated with in any form. From the court decision (PDF): 'After reviewing the dictionary definition of
the word make, the circuit court stated that the bottom line was that, following the mechanical
and technical act of burning images onto the CD-Rs, something new was created or made that
did not previously exist.' Is this simply a court's overreaction to a scumbag pedophile? And how does this affect the lawsuits by the BSA, RIAA, and MPAA?"
I didn't know I was making music all these years.
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ah, even better! that means the RIAA owes me a lot of money!
-- lol pwned
But your Honour... I didn't copy these Britney Spears albums, I made them!
That certainly is better! Ah, I can see it now: Sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band, produced by Willem Tjerkstra. Let the big bucks roll in...
-- Cheers!
Is it just me or does consulting a dictionary sound like a really poor way of deciding an issue of law?
I agree. I just burned a photo CD of an old Phish concert. Now I could be arrested on multiple counts of making, possessing, and distributing marijuana!?
It's precedent. Not precident. Though 'precident' could potentially make sense given the current administration.
Why not fork?
This is so excellent, this means legally I have 'made' oh so many chicks, but wait a minit that means I made Bill Gates and Goatse too and all those cute little kittens. I think I am gonna shootmyself forking internet
It is now illegal for me to browse the slashdot web site, because in order to view it, my browser must "make" a temporary file on my local hard disc of the copyrighted slashdot logo. I hereby turn myself in for copyright violation.
Using a text editor of your choice, write the following in a file:
"LOVE"
save, and burn to a CD-R
You can now say you legally made love with your computer!
There is nothing in a Sears catalog that somebody doesn't want to sleep with.
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?" - Patrick Henry
as much as I like the nailing Pedophile's balls to walls
Now that's a pretty specific fetish.
You still owe RIAA money. It's just that now you have to pay them back for marketing, distribution and the video for the song you just downloaded.
I estimate you owe them $40,000
Thank God for tomorrow!