Oh, and I almost forgot.
Has anyone else considered contributing to the legal defense of the 10 Elitetorrents.org admins in question?
The debate we are having here over p2p piracy, mass media copyright enforcement, and intellectual property in general could and should happen in society at large. One way our government provided a venue for that debate is in the court cases of those charged with crimes surrounding these issues.
Does anyone have any information on how to contact these individuals or possibly the refugee URL for Elitetorrents.org?
First, this has everything to do with terrorism. Sure ICE and DHS are not solely anti-terrorist entities, but fighting terrorism is part of their job. And when they are off chasing pirates in the wake of public MPAA renouncements of BitTorrent with the MPAA as a prime investigative source as evidenced by the MPAA's submission of privileged server records, DHS:ICE is not fighting terrorism. They are devoting time, manpower, and the often publicized limited budget.
Especially in the wake of the 9/11 commission's finding our greatest weakness is our borders, ICE devoting one cent to anything else has everything to do with terrorism.
And on the larger issue of the ethics of piracy, using EP3 as a case study it was both record setting at the box office and at Elitetorrent.org(they reported "creaking under the strain of SW fans"). This is one unblemished example of the totally lack of any negative casual relationship between p2p piracy and media sales. At the very least it proves the viability of coexistence. And at the very most it makes the assertion ludicrous that piracy is responsible for financial losses.
Could EP3 been even more record breaking with record breaking piracy? Possibly.
Is it ridiculous to scapegoat the worst case scenario piracy loss estimate of $950,000 on a movie that has to-date grossed $158 million instead of blaming the myriad of other detractors such as hype, the other prequels, Hayden Christensen's acting abilities, etc. ? Absolutely.
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Oh, and I almost forgot. Has anyone else considered contributing to the legal defense of the 10 Elitetorrents.org admins in question? The debate we are having here over p2p piracy, mass media copyright enforcement, and intellectual property in general could and should happen in society at large. One way our government provided a venue for that debate is in the court cases of those charged with crimes surrounding these issues. Does anyone have any information on how to contact these individuals or possibly the refugee URL for Elitetorrents.org?
First, this has everything to do with terrorism. Sure ICE and DHS are not solely anti-terrorist entities, but fighting terrorism is part of their job. And when they are off chasing pirates in the wake of public MPAA renouncements of BitTorrent with the MPAA as a prime investigative source as evidenced by the MPAA's submission of privileged server records, DHS:ICE is not fighting terrorism. They are devoting time, manpower, and the often publicized limited budget.
Especially in the wake of the 9/11 commission's finding our greatest weakness is our borders, ICE devoting one cent to anything else has everything to do with terrorism.
And on the larger issue of the ethics of piracy, using EP3 as a case study it was both record setting at the box office and at Elitetorrent.org(they reported "creaking under the strain of SW fans"). This is one unblemished example of the totally lack of any negative casual relationship between p2p piracy and media sales. At the very least it proves the viability of coexistence. And at the very most it makes the assertion ludicrous that piracy is responsible for financial losses.
Could EP3 been even more record breaking with record breaking piracy? Possibly.
Is it ridiculous to scapegoat the worst case scenario piracy loss estimate of $950,000 on a movie that has to-date grossed $158 million instead of blaming the myriad of other detractors such as hype, the other prequels, Hayden Christensen's acting abilities, etc. ? Absolutely.