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Swedish Man Fined $650,000 For Sharing 1 Movie, Charged Extra For Low Quality
An anonymous reader writes "A 28-year-old man in Sweden has been fined 4.3 million SEK (~650,000 USD) for uploading one movie. 300,000 SEK of that was added because of the upload's low technical quality (Google translation of Swedish original). The court ruled that the viewer watching the pirated version of the movie had a worse experience than people watching it legally, thereby causing damage to the movie's reputation (full judgement in Swedish)."
Everyone knows that copy infringement is stealing - that means they must have stolen (and therefore possess) that much worth of property and so are perfectly capable of paying such a fine. Obviously.
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The message the judge is sending is this:
If you pirate movies then you shall do it properly! No cam, webrip, telesync or other crap! All releases that does not match BRRip quality will be punishable by law!
Judge is obviously very tired of all that poor quality and out-of-sync crap out there. We all are!
Well, I've got to get back to work. When I stop rowing, the slave ship just goes in circles.
The solution clearly is to allow repayment in the form of $650,000 worth of movies downloaded by the MPAA from the defendant.
I concur. One low-quality copy ought to do it.
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What part of:
I fallet med Beck-filmen beräknas skadeståndet bland annat på kostnaden för att licensiera filmen, på att delningen slagit mot försäljningen och för att den delade filmens kvalitet försämrat filmens rykte.
can't you understand ? :)
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When was Sweden ever cool?
A 64x64 pixel MPEG is so low quality that it would be worth millions!
You wouldn't steal a handbag.
No, but I stole a handjob once. But then I had to give it back.
Imagine the damages for a single pixel image!