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UK Court: MPAA Not Entitled To Profits From Piracy
jfruh writes "The MPAA and other entertainment industry groups have been locked for years in a legal struggle against Newzbin2, a Usenet-indexing site. Since Newzbin2 profited from making it easier for users to find pirated movies online, the MPAA contends they can sue to take those profits on behalf of members who produced that content in the first place. But a British court has rejected that argument."
These are the people that think they are entitled to have their business model protected by legislation, despite the supreme court of the US emphatically stating otherwise prior, and who feel that engaging in quid pro quo is a perfectly legitimate practice, and openly complains about politicians not staying bought.
These are people that are the very poster child for "entitlement complex", while openly complaining about that aspect in others, making them the poster children for "hypocrite" as well.
I fully expect them to stamp their little feet and throw a tantrum over this, and do so by employing very petty means, including but not limited to whining about how unfair the EU courts are, threatening to alter distribution timetables for licensed products until demands are met (WTC be damned!), offering clandestine kickbacks and flat out bribes to european lower courd judges to muddy the waters surrounding the matter with related cases, and stepping up enforcement efforts against eurozone companies it has dirt on.
Really, the best thing that can happen here is for somebody like NK to decide that their little "ownership" game is offensive, and give them a nuclear firecracker.
California is theoretically in range of NK's rickety ICBM "technology" right? Hitting the MPAA headquarters for daring to thwart their propoganda efforts would probably have a more profound effect on the US populace than hitting the pentagon would. Seriously.
You think the parasitic bastards are the ones creating things rather than the ones stealing them? You really are a fucking twat, aren't you?