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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.'"
Does water taste like fine wine in your little dream-world, too? Stallman's old, tired line that people will continue to produce high-quality projects "because they love it" is idiotic. That may fly for what are largely single-creator or small-group projects, so you [i]might[/i] see some projects emerge in the realm of music and novels. But anything large-scale that isn't infrastructural (meaning recreational software) is going to essentially die in your sick little fantasyland.
Take games for example. You say that it'll still be produced, except "maybe not at the same rate it is now"--are you really so dense as to think that you'll get games of the same quality as you do now? Do you seriously think that there's any way that something like Half-Life 2 would be produced among the open-source community? Look at the not-entirely-shitty F/OSS games out there--Nexuiz et al. are based on an originally closed-source engine. For an example of the "quality" of entirely open-source engines, go look at something like Cube. Decent-for-free, but shitty in comparison to something commercial. Or compare Civilization 4 to FreeCiv; if you say FreeCiv isn't lacking you're deluded.
How dare those people expect to make a living out of their work. It should all be free for you to use, and god [i]damn[/i] the whole "making enough money to eat" thing. Or is it just that now they've [i]already[/i] made the games, it's okay in your entitlement-based mind to say "oh, fuck you, we're going to take it and make it free for everyone, and too bad for you if you relied on it for income"?
Fucking GNUtards need to get a job in the real world.
"You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time."
Let me start by saying that I do not agree with the punishment, but take a step back and examine the basic issue. The issue at hand is theft. It is summer time and a lot people in my neighborhood (including myself) are doing yard work. So lets say you are in your backyard in the middle of the day mowing your lawn. You left the garage open and the garage door unlocked because after all you are outside your residence and plan on entering in an hour or two. While you are mowing your grass someone walks into your house, takes that brand new 52" LCD tv, your xbox 360 (or PS3), your library of games and movies, and your laptop. Now lets say this person is caught. What type punishment would you suggest for this individual? Just a slap on the wrist?
I do not know about the other folks on here, but I would want the most severe punishment possible.
How easy? Are you a lawyer? No. so STFU. Seriously. It is not an easy leap to go from an ACTUAL copyright infringer, i.e. an uploader of copyrighted stuff, to someone who is just downloading. For example, someone who just downloads from a Usenet account.
How many DOWNLOADERS from a Usenet account have you heard being sued? None.
P2P is going to die unless it can be made more secure. A paid Usenet account is the way to go. alt.binaries.* gives you what you want.
Imaginary Crime would be a better name than IP Crime. Imaginary property theft should lead to imaginary punishment. It would be more proper for the MPAA to prove real losses in civil court, which would be hard to do seeing as the movies in question all had record breaking revenue. Criminal copyright laws are absurd.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Kill everyone associated to the *AA.
They're pussies. Can't get a real job so they steal like the common thief, only it's 7-10 instead of 1-2. Cut off their balls, man, but I'm certain they have none. Pussies !! I welcome this news. Send all the man-with-pussy types to jail, where you know they'll be welcome with open arms, and lots of sweet sweet love.
WIPE OUT the JEW-CONTROLLED **AA/Hollywood with your guns!
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