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Man Handed Conditional Prison Sentence for Spreading Information About Popcorn Time Service (torrentfreak.com)
A man from Denmark has been handed a six-month conditional prison sentence for spreading information about Popcorn Time, an authorized on-demand movies and TV shows streaming service, news outlet TorrentFreak reports. From the report: In what is being described as a first for Europe, the man was convicted after telling people how to download, install and use the movie streaming service. He was also ordered to forfeit $83,300 in ad revenue and complete 120 hours community service.
What a load! You don't make $83,300 in ad revenue from just "spreading information about [banned service]." Sounds like maybe there would be other English words that would more accurately describe what he's accused of.
That's why you got criminal charges and a sentence... If you are going to do this and hope to get away with it, at least don't profit from it... You make yourself a huge target when you make a profit doing this kind of thing so you will be first on the list.
This guy made how much from ad revenue? $83K
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Forfeited $83000 in revenue?
Methinks he wasn't just "telling them about the service".
IMO from an American law point of view, it wouldn't seem that he did anything precisely illegal, merely enabled other people to do things which might include illegality. It'd be like hosting a site on lockpicking.
-Styopa
Authorized to do what by who? It's a torrent site.
I read the article, and as near as I can figure, he was busted for posting instructions on how to download, install, and use software for pirating content from PopcornTime.
From the /. excerpt, it sounds like all he was doing was helping people to legally use the service. Highly misleading.
And what a crappy headline... I have pretty low expectations for accuracy in /. postings, but this is one of the more egregious cases of crap editing, or something. Unless it was intentionally misleading.
A man from Denmark has been handed a six-month conditional prison sentence for spreading information about Popcorn Time, an authorized on-demand movies and TV shows streaming service.
So either the summary is wrong and the site was illegal (which is what I suspect) or someone needs to explain why making money pointing people to a legal streaming site is illegal.
Someone who runs a website actively promoting illegal activities needs to be squeaky clean to get away with it. If you are making money off it, it's going to look bad. I don't know the Danish laws but in the US there's only so much you can hide behind on the first amendment which protects free speech not commerical speech.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
"Thought crime"
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"HOW TERRIBLE white people are, and men in particular"
Yup, we only want movies that show make believe, not reality
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.. in the state of Denmark.
Tell us how you really feel about WhollyWeird...
They are victims of their own success formulas. Nobody is willing to take risks unless it's been tried before. If you have a story or a film that doesn't follow one of the paths that was successful before, good luck getting funded. Of course, the bean counters are not all to blame. They have also forgotten the fist rule of business, don't offend your customers. In the race to the bottom driven by "sex sells" they continue to shock and offend the majority of their customers, then to add insult to injury they make light of traditional values and insult a large portion of those who find them important. Don't get me started on the ill-advised political stance they take (always a bad idea to take sides on such polarizing topics).
Movies that are so shit that you spent your time and money downloading 300 of them, proving to them your desire for them and helping to justify their shitty lockdowns. If you want to protest you protest by not consuming their shit, all you are doing is justifying their actions.
The "liberals" mostly hold up a failed nations like Venezuela, Cuba, China as their Communist vision for the USA.
Denmark still has a working economy and liberals are pushing for a more Soviet Socialist government.
The SJW liberals would like the thought crime part. Spreading information as a crime is something a SJW would covert for their go-to nations.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Streisand Effect... having the man arrested, imprisoned etc is doing MORE to spread information about Popcorn Time than the guy they are imprisoning. Go figure. I wonder if the prosecutors get the irony here... /me goes to look up Popcorn Time
There's very little Socialist about the last several Danish governments, they are more and more populist, you know, afraid of others.
But Denmark does have great social services, among the best in the world.
As an example their health services are ranked 2rd. in Europe.
https://healthpowerhouse.com/p...
From personal experience I would say their legal system is rather sparse, for example they have 'just' a parliament but no senate or similar.
"The likes of Facebook and WhatsApp are free to those whose privacy is of zero value."
You evidently didn't read the article. Basically, his website was a guide to illegally pirating PopcornTime content, complete with how-to's, links to pirating software, and so forth.
Whether that should be illegal or not is another question, but his activities were not as innocent as writing reviews of streaming software.
an authorized on-demand movies and TV shows streaming service
Authorized by whom? Or do you mean unauthorized? We have to ask these questions, given Slashdot's lack of competent editing.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
It is not a criminal act in the USA where it matters, since Hollywood is in the US. (You are likely confused by the difference between criminal and civil law)
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The problem is Hollywood.
It's as much of a problem for you as any other entity that produces poor quality products. You just don't buy them.
The problem here is people assuming easy access to quality movies, on their terms, is a god-given right.
There was actually a time when they created *original* movies like "Predator" and "Aliens", and showed them for less than $10.
There was also a time when a candy bar was a nickle.
Many modern book, TV series, movies, and video games tell people how to commit murder, i.e. "Point gun, pull trigger!" Can they be held responsible for the results of anyone following those instructions?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Denmark is a great place, but yeah, they do have that 75% tax rate (which the citizens don't seem to mind too much.)
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Oh... so his "crime" was reported the existing flaws in the Popcorn Time content protection mechanism? Wouldn't giving him a reward and then fixing the defects make more sense?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Hi troll. We see you and aren't falling for it.
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Oooooh burn!!! Ah, I have one too: I know you are but what am I?
I know, it's all part of the plan to antagonize and sow hate. It's okay we get it. We understand your motives. I just hope your getting paid for it because it's a pretty pathetic way to spend your time.
This is a decision from a court of first instance. It will probably be overturned in apellate court.
"Hi troll. We see you and aren't falling for it."
Should we mind that entirely made up tax rate?
The Danish income tax is just around the EU average. E.g. in 2013, the average single Dane paid an effective income tax of 38%, compared to 31% in the US, 49% in Germany or 56% in Belgium. (Source: OECD)
(Many people in the above mentioned countries will react with disbelief when they see these numbers, but then, it really shouldn't surprise anyone that OECD understands the tax systems of the respective countries better than most citizens.)
Incidentally, that Belgian average tax rate of 56% is the same as the Danish marginal (and thus also maximum) rate.
Maybe you're thinking of the OECD "tax burden" (total tax revenue, including VAT and fees, as a percentage of GDP), which is sometimes brought up by politicians campaigning on tax cuts? But even that is only 46%, and while it is indeed (barely) the highest in OECD, it's also a largely meaningless number, as revenue-neutral changes to the tax system can have significant impact on it. (E.g. in Denmark, people pay taxes on welfare checks. If instead we did like most countries and just paid out equivalent tax-free – but smaller – checks, the OECD tax burden would drop an estimated 4% points, and six OECD countries would suddenly be ahead of us.)
Nobody is making you watch them. If they are such shit, stop watching, problem solved?
How would you know they are shit unless you watched them? Sounds like the GP did stop watching some. Trouble is that movies are launched with such hype that you think they must be worth watching, so you give it a try.
If you want to protest you protest by not consuming their shit.
Doesn't work. Ignoring things is never noticed by those responsible for the things. What might have more effect is to watch the shit and then say it's shit in a review on IMDB - not a huge effect from your one review, but collectively it would hurt them. Of course you might have other things to do with your time.
Subtle that, we almost missed your racism. And sexism.
Maybe the point is that most white guys identify as the person that they are, and resent other people trying to label them as white or male, and particularly react against people trying to suggest that either label is inherently bad.
Perhaps protesting against other people being racist sexist cunts is something they could volunteer to do. You'd support that, surely?
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Subtle that, we almost missed your racism. And sexism.
You missed something alright. But not what you think
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I read the summary, which said PopcornTime is an "authorized" service. Being authorized means per definition it is not illegal and calling it a service means someone else is running/providing the service and you're paying ($0 or more) to consume it. If it's a service, you can presume to be paying for the licensing.
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I agree the 75% is wrong.
But you forgot to add 22-25% of kommuneskat (Local tax) to the 38% income tax...
Denmark also has the highest VAT allowed by the EU, 25% on anything you buy.
And please don't forget the tax on cars that is up to 198%.
I asked the Danish skat (tax man) what I would have to pay would I decide to take my (Dutch) pension in Denmark, a nice round 50%!
"The likes of Facebook and WhatsApp are free to those whose privacy is of zero value."
The lack of a second chamber of parliament makes the Danish system quite unstable, there is nothing stopping a new (or existing) government to come up with the wildest laws.
The recent changes in car taxation are an example, the smallest cars were made more expensive...
"The likes of Facebook and WhatsApp are free to those whose privacy is of zero value."