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Patent and Copyright Wars Gone Wild

Posted by samzenpus on from the I'll-go-away-for-a-dollar dept.

snydeq writes "While Apple and Samsung fight over patents and prototypes, other copyright trolls are waging an X-rated battle on innocent users, as lawyers representing some adult movie companies are sending letters accusing users of illegally downloading their movies and saying that, for a price, they can make the charges go away. 'Cases like this, usually involving pornographic content, are very common,' Mitch Stoltz, a staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation said. At least 250,000 individuals have been named in group lawsuits over the last few years. There's a very common belief that if someone pirates your Wi-Fi connection or uses your computer without your permission, you are responsible for illegal downloads of copyrighted material. That's not true, says Stoltz; the law is quite clear. However, the lawyers who bring those cases use that misperception to convince innocent people that they had better pay up. Since $3,500 is just a fraction of the money it would take to fight a case in court, most people simply settle."

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  1. Dear Proprietarians and Patent Trolls by Ralph+Spoilsport · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Fuck You.

    --
    Shoes for Industry. Shoes for the Dead.
    1. Re:Dear Proprietarians and Patent Trolls by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Why, yes. Yes we can.

    2. Re:Dear Proprietarians and Patent Trolls by drooling-dog · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Absolutely we can. The "system" didn't appear out of nowhere from pure intentions. It was designed, bought and paid for by the very interests that are now abusing it for profit. It's how politics works now.

  2. Re:Plus, there's the embarrassment factor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You know this may finally be just the impetus that we need to come out into the open....

    I too am a pervert.

    That felt good to get off my chest :)

    It's funny, lately I had a friend confess to me he was in deep shit with his girlfriend over an alleged "porn addiction" because he got caught surfing porn. I told him every man is addicted to porn. There is no such thing as "porn addiction", the truth is, there is masturbation addiction. As long as you are not chaffing, or getting pulled over, or distracted by sounds of people in the park, or unable to keep a job, you are just fine.

    Women... you are full of shit. All of you are reading your versions of porn right now. It's called Fifty Shades of Wet Vagina.

    We don't have anything to hide guys. Don't let these assclown lawyers bully you into submission. Stand up! Be Proud!

    I MASTURBATE TO PORN ON THE INTERNET!

    Where's our fucking parade?

    submitted anonymously because I don't want anybody to see I wrote this.. especially the you-know-who