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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."
The line begins with personal responsibility, and the line begins when they created a site made it index search able.
At that moment they became personally responsible for the acts others would be using there website for.
The ISP's also bare a responsibility believe it or not, and most ISP's if I am not mistaken will hand over records if a warrant is issued.
They do this specifically so not to be held liable for the acts of its users. If they didn't they could be charged as accessories or harboring fugitives.
Its so much fun to break the law. Eventually the companies are forced to add DRM....
I'm seeing some good things in Canada and EU (or was it just France?) with the three strikes law. Considering Biden also favors MPAA/RIAA I hope we can finally see the freeloading thieves stealing other peoples copyright content get busted in the US.
Although considering the brain dead logic people use to justify stealing stopping piracy would mean that all the people pirating XP and Office 2003 would switch to Linux and OOO. amirite? They weren't going to buy it anyway... Isn't that the excuse thieves give for stealing?
An idea:
ipods are too expensive for me so I'm going to steal them so that Apple stops trying to overprice them.... yeah that'll teach them. Fight the man !
Anyone with me?