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Columnist Fired For Reviewing Pirated Movie
Hugh Pickens writes "Roger Friedman, an entertainment columnist for FoxNews.com, discovered over the weekend just what Rupert Murdoch means by 'zero tolerance' when it comes to movie piracy. On Friday, the film studio 20th Century Fox — owned by the News Corporation, the media conglomerate ruled by Mr. Murdoch — became angry after reading Friedman's latest column, a review of 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine,' a big-budget movie that was leaked in unfinished form on the Web last week. Friedman posted a mini-review, adding, 'It took really less than seconds to start playing it all right onto my computer.' The film studio, which enlisted the FBI to hunt the pirate, put out a statement calling Friedman's column 'reprehensible' while News Corporation weighed in with its own statement, saying it had asked Fox News to remove the column from its Web site. 'When we advised Fox News of the facts,' the statement said, 'they promptly terminated Mr. Friedman.'"
Grey area my ass.
It's illegal and you know it.
Uploading or not.
I have never understood the pointless need of pirates to justify their illegal activities. Your excuses won't keep you out of a courtroom should you get targeted, and the judge won't give a shit about your interpretation of the law based on some shit you read online and agreed with.
Protip: Emulators are illegal, too, not just the roms. Check the DMCA and then go find an emulator that doesn't violate it through the use of reverse engineering and getting around copy protection/encryption schemes during development. The last major emulator to get in before the DMCA was Bleem!, and as such the court ruling that allowed Bleem! does not serve as precedent for future hypothetical cases. So stop pointing to it as "proof" that emulators are legal.