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."

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If the "What about Google?" defense doesn't work..

[nausicaa]

... because most users of P2P-software use it for copyright infringement.. Then how about we ban guns?

I don't have any hard numbers, but lets look at how many people actually use them to comit crimes vs. how many use them for legitimate purposes, such as hunting, or actually preventing a crime..

After that's done, we could look at the same ratio for people who aren't cops or soldiers. And byt this I also mean the times when they are off-duty.

Just to make things more interesting, lets say that aggression, state-sponsored terror and the like, are also crimes (which they indeed are).. How many legit uses did you say there were for guns?

Oh, and yes, this does include stuff done by 'the good guys' of the world. Most countries have war crimes on their conscience.

Now, don't get your panties in a bunch because I'm talking about guns, or, even worse, because you feel I'm talking about things done by specific countries. Keep on track; this is about using an example in another scenario :P