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Big Swedish Filesharing Server Seized
SmugJerk writes "Authorities are continuing to apply pressure on Sweden's filesharing community amid the trial of several principals of The Pirate Bay filesharing site. Today they seized a fileserver containing about 65 terabytes of files, corresponding to around 16,000 full-length movies."
Not to mention the fact that they insinuate that 65tb of files are illegal files, when they could be just about anything. I seem to remember hearing about a case of some guy busted for child porn or something like that and they announced on the news that they had confiscated "hundreds of video cassettes," and showed them on a table in the press conference. It later turned out that they were all like rental videos and crap, and the cops knew it, but were using that as a cudgel to poison public opinion and get the guy to cop a plea.
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the police here in the UK do the exact same. they value cannabis resin by saying it costs £5 GBP per gram when in fact an ounce(28 grams) will cost you £30-50 GBP. it's a bullshit PR based accounting system based on prices from yesteryear and not based in modern reality.
Are you liable?
No.
Yes.
Same goes with them. The moment they create the site allowed indexing and a search bar they became personally responsible.
So Google is "personally responsible" for everything it indexes ?
No what am I going to do? I've got every mp3 in existance! I've got all color movies ever released, and then some. But now what? And don't say I'm stealing because I'd never buy any of this shit anyway.
It's like that philosophy riddle: If a movie is copied in the woods and nobody watches it, was it copied?
I've never heard a stamp collector writes more letters or postcards than average.
Sorry to pour cold water on your analogy, but they do. I worked in Antarctica where we have special and unique stamps. Collectors would send us packages full of envelopes to send back so they'd get the stamps and nice stamps on them. During the winterover (9 months with no outside communication, locked out by the ice), there was a full-time mailman who was there just to stamp the shitload of envelopes sent by those guys. It did pay one fifth of the cost of hiring the ship to go there in the first place !!! The nicest of those guys would put some gifts in their packages (like a bottle of wine).
Non-Linux Penguins ?