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Brazilian Court Bans P2P Software
Earlier this year, at the behest of an anti-piracy group consisting of the usual suspects from the recording industry, a Brazilian court ruled that a company named Cadare Information Technology must implement a filter on the P2P software they distributed on their website to weed out copyrighted content. Cadare was unable comply with the order because they didn't develop the software; they merely offered it for download. The case went back to court, and a Brazilian judge has now decided to ban distribution of the software because it can be used to assist copyright infringement. "He went on to suggest that any website offering the software alongside advertising (i.e, trying to profit from offering it) would be committing a crime, punishable by between two and four years in jail."
Guess he'll have to ban the Internet...
"...because it can be used to assist copyright infringement..."
The time has come to start flooding Slashdot with our uuencoded porn and mp3s.
The number of them seems to be getting to the point where we're going to need to start culling them like deer. Perhaps a tag system ... say two per year per person. Ahhh ... I can almost see the BMW and Brooks Brothers logos up over the fireplace as you tell the grandkids "Yep, that one was a civil lawyer ... got him from 250 yards"
Oh, great, now I have this mental image of the Goatse troll posts actually being steganography for something else even worse. You owe me a gallon of brain bleach.
Holy shit I finally get it. American "capitalism" has subtlety transformed from a system where competition breeds innovation in order to one-up your competition and be rewarded with increased profits, into a system where lawyers ban all kinds of crap to fuel sneaky and underhanded ways of skirting the "law" in order to screw everyone out of all of their money!
It all makes sense now!!