Miscellaneous > Intellectual Property & Law

Holy shit! Tis horrible...

(1/16) > >>

lazygamer:
The corps step up the war...

 
quote:
The Danish Anti Pirat Gruppen (Anti Piracy Group) has issued invoices of up to $14,000 apiece to approximately 150 users of KaZaA and eDonkey for illegally downloading copyright material.

APG monitored the file sharing networks for available files with Danish IP addresses - and went to court to get the users' personal details from their ISPs, armed with screen shots of, for example, the KaZaA window showing the files on the user's hard-drive. The courts obliged and ordered the ISPs to deliver the personal details of the incriminated users. Then the bills were in the post ... landing on the mats of the unfortunate downloaders over the last few days.

The users are charged about $16 per CD and about $60 per full length movie. If they pay now - and delete the illegal content from their hard drives - then the amount is cut in half and they avoid going to court. Those who don't pay up are to be sued.

Question is: if the APG has only the file names from KaZaA or eDonkey - how can it make sure that they really are illegal files and not only "similar named files" or hoax files? Can APG prove that is the work of a certain user in a household - or will it go for the entire family?

We'll keep you posted ...

Doctor V:
Why not just reinstate slavery.  May as well considering how far things have gone.  Only this time, not just blacks, everyone with less than a million dollars would become a slave.

[ November 25, 2002: Message edited by: Comrade Doctor V: Linux Pusher ]

choasforages:
hahahaa, NO, everybody will be enslaved in the future, look at the laws and actions of this contry,  hell, the governemnt allmost has us enslaved, look at our fucking taxs. tax what we make, tax how we spend, tax for the fuck of it, hell, if patrick henry/*i think thats his name*/ saw todays taxs, hed say no taxation period, i bet hes rolling in his grave

Doctor V:
Not everyone pays taxes.  Microsoft dosn't.  Most large enterprises don't.  There are loopholes in the laws that allow large companys to avoid them completely.  The tax laws are so complicated, a whole room could be filled by tax law documentation.  
I think tax law should be simplified and re-written so that all of it could fit on to one sheet of paper.

lazygamer:
Ok being optimistic, we might get the chance at a first world country revolution someday. Just because  it is harder to succeed at then in the past, doesn't mean its impossible.

So if a new democracy is formed, perhaps safeguards could be added to greatly extend it's lifespan. It just feels like laws of the universe.

LAW #1:You can only push people so far before they rebel.

LAW #2:You cannot enslave people permanantly.

Technology makes it harder to rally people to overthrow a government, and technology makes it harder for the people to succeed, but it never becomes impossible.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page