MPAA is Awarded $110 Million In TorrentSpy Case

An anonymous reader writes "The MPAA was awarded a staggering judgment in its case against the BitTorrent indexing site TorrentSpy. According to Slyck.com, a judge in California rendered a $110 million victory for the MPAA, and a permanent injunction against TorrentSpy."

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Re:Perspective

[IgnoramusMaximus]

And anyone who believes (or disingenuously argues) that the 'property' in Intellectual Property is the information is dumber still, to the point of being what my neighbor from Texas calls a slack-jawed idjit.

Oooh! Oooh! Oh the High Priest of the Temple of Illogical Avarice, do bestow upon us, dirty, slack-jawed, drooling ijits, thy Great Wisdom of Gilded Ages! Do tell us what the fabled "property" is in the Divine and Holy Intellectual Property. We prostate ourselves before thy Direct Connection to His Holiness, The Lord Profit, May Great Dividends and Bonuses Be Upon Him, and await thy Enlightenment!

But please, Oh Defender of the Divine Laws of Acquisition, be quick about it because them Heathen Rose-pinko-and-all-the-other-shades-of-Red Commie Heathens of Heretical Science and Reason insist that we ijits might be waiting for a looong while for what them Unbelievers call "coherent and logical" explanation ....

Re:Perspective

[IgnoramusMaximus]

Property at law, in its simplest definition, is an exclusive right.

Oh great! Marvelous! Brilliant! Spectacular!

Oh you are sooo smart, your Holy Excellence that it makes our slacked idjit jaws slack all the way to the ground!

But ... errr ... just one, itsy, bitsy, tiny little wee thing: them Unbelievers insist that you cannot have a right to something which does not have them required attributes to be exclusively controlled and thus "owned". Like, say, sunlight. Or vacuum. Or flames of a fire. Or integer numbers. Or thoughts. Or, say, information (which is another name for such stuff as integer numbers as thoughts). Other then that, infinitesimal, negligible really, snag, yours is a Verily Deeeeeep and Profoundly Wise Reply! As expected of a High Priest of Illogical Avarice!

The property is the copyright, the patent, the trademark, the contractual instrument, etc.

Which, the Heathens insist, in the light of the above, are figments of the Greedy Imagination of The Priesthood's of Possession of Things. A wholly make-believe and illogical affair based upon pompously and sanctimoniously trading clothes so light and so breezy and so fine that one cannot see them at all. Usually sold to royalty, kings, emperors and such.

... and spending a little time with how the law has evolved would confirm the distinction between what is and is not property.

Oh this is sooo great! A Truly Scholarly Answer! To understand the Parsing of the Holy Books, one only has to Parse the Holy Books! Which, The Holy Books explain, is to be Explained in The Holy Books! The explanation of which can be found in The Books Holy, after Parsing them! For any doubts will flee after The Holy Book parsing, followed by applying the act of Parsing to The Holy Books! For what is Defined in the The Holy Books, The Holy Books Define!

Take this Heathens! Look upon this Grandioso Logico Circularum Rotundo and weep!

Likewise, your real property isn't the land (because no one has the authority to give you, and you don't have the power to own, land itself). It's your legal rights to control the land,

I see! So the property are rights to control the uncontrollable! Great Golly! What Wisdom! What Insight! What Holy Greed! You humble us, poor idjits, with thy Boundless Reason-less Voracity for Possession Of Everything and Everyone, oh The High Priest of Infinite Covetousness!

Re:Perspective

[thetoadwarrior]

Neither the president or citizens could find Burma on the map.

To be fair they probably think the whole world wants US dollars more than anything despite the fact the dollar is worth about as much as used toilet paper so their think is that they've given Burma financial freedom.

Devils advocate

[RationalRoot]

You've had your house for 14 years. Times up. It's public property now ? That money in your pension. You have had it for long enough. You don't really want to earn interest on it any more do you. I think the Movie industry is using the law like a scatter gun, but I'm not sure I understand what is fundamentally wrong with IPR.