MPAA Scores First P2P Jury Conviction

An anonymous reader writes "The MPAA must be celebrating. According to the BitTorrent news site Slyck.com, the Department of Justice is proclaiming their first P2P criminal copyright conviction, against an Elite Torrents administrator. The press release notes, 'The jury was presented with evidence that Dove was an administrator of a small group of Elite Torrents members known as "Uploaders," who were responsible for supplying pirated content to the group. At sentencing, which is scheduled for Sept. 9, 2008, Dove faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.'"

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10 years for bullshit, nothing for sendin thousand

[unity100]

to death in goddamn desert.

HOW ?

corporate america. thats how, and why.

Re:Insanity

[FishWithAHammer]

No, it'll just need to be paid for differently: by charging for the programmers' labor instead of charging for copies of the files they produce.

Oh, sure! Programmers are totally going to be able to make a livable wage off a product that isn't made first! Look at the fucking game market and see how realistic that is. Put down the bong first.

More like god damn the people who are too blind, or too attached to a broken business model, to realize that you don't need copyright to get paid for working. People in most other industries manage to get paid for their work without any special monopoly protections like copyright.

Because the people in other industries are producing physical objects. When your creation (and it is as manifest a creation as anything physical) is easily copied, the framework of copyright ensures that you as a creator get a fair shake.

But no, you quite plainly don't give a fuck about the rights of creators. You and your GNUtard friends (and keep in mind, I write open-source code) plainly don't give two shits about the rights of those who are actually making things.

(And you're utterly, factually wrong about businesses "doing the work once those customers have agreed to pay them for it." Never fucking heard of retail, dipshit? Software development's profit cycle is essentially retail, not service-based, because service-based doesn't work for mass-market software one fucking bit.)