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Spanish Judges Liken File Sharing To Lending Books
Dan Fuhry writes "A three-judge panel in the Provincial Court of Madrid has closed a case that has been running since 2005, ruling that the accused are not guilty of any copyright infringement on the grounds that their BitTorrent tracker did not distribute any copyrighted material, and they did not generate any profit from their site: '[t]he judges noted that all this takes places between many users all at once without any of them receiving any financial reward.' This implies that the judges are sympathetic to file sharers. The ruling essentially says that file sharing is the digital equivalent of lending or sharing books or other media. Maybe it's time for all them rowdy pirates to move to Spain."
It's an idea that came from DailyKos, where the subject line is what people see first, and then they click on it or not to see the rest of your comment. On Slashdot, you don't see the subject line when a comment is folded, so it's not a good idea here.
Fucking liberals barely know how to write coming out of college, and can't evaluate how to communicate effectively based on the technologies in question. In fact, I'll bet most of them are only here because 'geeks are cool'.
> they did not generate any profit from their site
That is no excuse. If I break into a bank during the night, empty their vault, burn the paper money and throw the gold bars into 1000 fathoms of sea unknown, I did not make any profit from the crime, but the bank still suffered mighty losses and a lenghty prison sentence is 100% assured.
Media pirates may not always profit, but they steal revenue from entertainment companies, because music and movies pirated will not be seen in theatre or stage, so producers get no income.
> file sharing is the digital equivalent of lending or sharing books or other media.
This is ridiculous. When you lend a book, you cannot use it until it returns physically, while P2P involves copyiing, so both can enjoy the same entertainment content at the same time, yet the producer gets nothing.
I think P2P madness (first MP3, then DivX) was intentionally created to wipe the idea of private property from the minds of young generations, which makes them more susceptible to the ideals of judeo-communism. Nowadays many movies and TV even popularize the concept of alchemy, so the inherent value of gold bar can be relativized in the eye of foolish, gullible common people. The total crisis of material value necessarily leads to moral crisis and collapse, which only serves those who secretly hold the real value (gold). P2P is destroyer of worlds and death of the west!
...can still steal you (*) your home grown weed and you get might a fine up to 600 &euro...
(*) yes, this time this is a proper use of the word
Can steal you your? No, I don't think that's proper at all.
Well, where the dollar is used, saying "a dollar bill" refers to $1. "Any dollar bill" would be widely interpreted as "Any $1 bill."
I'm sorry if you regard that as improper, but I'm just going on native experience.