Australian ISP Argues For BitTorrent Users

taucross writes "Australian ISP iiNet is making a very bold move. They are asking the court to accept that essentially, BitTorrent cannot be used to distribute pirated content because a packet does not represent a substantial portion of the infringing material. They are also hedging their bets purely on the strength of the movie studios' 'forensic' evidence. This ruling will go straight to the heart of Australia's copyright law. At last, an ISP willing to stand up for its customers! Let's hope we have a technically-informed judge."

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fantasy land

[Un pobre guey]

People who violate copyrighted material are in a fantasy world. If someone creates something, music, software, video, whatever, they have a right to charge for it. You do not have a right to consume it in its totality (fair use exists for parts of it) if they do not explicitly allow you to by some kind of license. What part of that don't you understand? Who do you think you are to expect people to work at making things and accept that you can take whatever you want from them without permission and without compensation?

Morons think music should be free apparently because of the mere fact that they like to listen to it, usually accompanied by some sappy argument that music should be free because things of beauty should be free, and the human soul is free, blah blah blah. Another favorite is that since these days it is easy to copy, it can no longer be copyrighted and is thus free. I guess if you are skilled enough to enter people's homes at night and steal their silverware, it isn't really theirs to begin with, not to mention if it is really beautiful silverware and wants to be free. Truly arguments only a hopeless dumbshit could put forth.

If someone explicitly allows you to take something with GPL or a Creative Commons license, great! If they don't, you have to pay. It's someone's income, you idiot, regardless of whether the price is reasonable or controlled by a cartel or not. Grow the fuck up for Chrissake.

Re:fantasy land

[Un pobre guey]

Why do you insist on arguing something you know full well is irrelevant? Do you eat mp3 files or videos? Are they destroyed after you listen to or view them? You do understand that consuming music means listening to it and consuming video means watching it, right? Right?

JeeeZUS...