Studios Sue Oz ISP Over Allowing Piracy

Da Massive writes "Leading Hollywood film studios Village Roadshow, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros Entertainment, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and Disney Enterprises are suing Australia's second largest ISP, iiNet, saying it's complicit in the infringement of their copyrighted material. According to a statement of claim, 'the ISP knows that there are a large number of customers who are engaging in continuing infringements of copyright by using BitTorrent file sharing technology.'"

Comments

Re:Criminal intent?

[theaveng]

>>>And what if the criminal also had been armed? What if the situation was escalated?

He'd be dead. Which is preferable to having either me or my girlfriend dead (as often happens to unarmed citizens). To quote the founders of the Democrat and Federalist Party, respectively:

"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves." - Thomas Jefferson. - "Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense." - John Adams, A Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, 1787-88

I will Not walk around like defenseless sheep waiting for the wolves/thieves to attack me. This sheep is going to be armed and when attacked, shoot the wolf dead. The Right to Self-Defense (a defense of the Right to Life) is one of our most-important rights.