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Porn Maker Sues 7,000+ For Copyright Infringement
This summer, we discussed news that the producers of The Hurt Locker had sued 5,000 people for sharing the movie over BitTorrent. Reader suraj.sun writes with word that a porn company is now following suit, filing a complaint targeting 7,098 people for illegally sharing one of their films. Quoting:
"Axel Braun Productions filed the complaint Friday in US District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia, alleging that the defendants illegally shared the adult film Batman XXX: A Porn Parody. The film was written and directed by Axel Braun and distributed by Vivid Entertainment, one of the country's best known porn studios. ... '**** 'em all,' Braun told Xbiz. 'People don't realize that when you pirate a movie it hurts all of the people who work very hard to get it produced — from the cast to the production assistants to the makeup artists. So we are going after every one of them who pirates our content.'"
Christine O'Donnell certainly didn't know what was in the Constitution. Didn't work out for her.
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Thomas Jefferson used it later to explain his understanding of the 1st Amendment. Since he wrote the thing in the first place, he gets a pass here.
Umm, no, he didn't. He was actually out of the country when the First Amendment was written.James Madison wrote the First Amendment.
Additionally, if you read the letter where Thomas Jefferson used that phrase, you discover that he envisioned it as a one way "wall". The government is restricted from interfering with the "church", the "church" is not restricted from influencing the government.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison