arstechnica.com— As the judicial system grapples with the RIAA's claim that merely running file sharing software can constitute copyright infringement, one judge sides with the RIAA.
Aug 27, 2007View in Crawl 4
Rightness and wrongness aside, being in the right and being in the wrong have never made much difference in the eyes of the law. Having a good lawyer is far more important than being in the right; look up the OJ Simpson criminal trial if you don't believe that.
So in other words, if I have a CD collection in my room in an unlocked CD tower where my friends can get to them. I am subject to a lawsuit by the RIAA for distribution. If I have an MP3 collection of songs ripped off my own personal compact discs, on a home network, I am subject to a lawsuit because people in my home can access those MP3s and they didn't purchase the CD. Welcome to America, home of the free, where it's all about how much you pay your lawyer or *couch* your judge to win a case. Or of course if you just get the most incompetent judge (pretty much any under 25 years old or so is most likely going to be).
morcheebaAug 27, 2007
Burn down the libraries!!!!
sctwp09Aug 28, 2007
I'm in ur gnutella stealing ur musikz.
rabidbobAug 28, 2007
Rightness and wrongness aside, being in the right and being in the wrong have never made much difference in the eyes of the law. Having a good lawyer is far more important than being in the right; look up the OJ Simpson criminal trial if you don't believe that.
rabidbobAug 28, 2007
A rough average from 2001-2007 is 40,000 per year. +/- 2,000 a year. Let's call it 13 x 11 Sept 2001 per year; close enough for Stalin.
chrismgtisAug 29, 2007
So in other words, if I have a CD collection in my room in an unlocked CD tower where my friends can get to them. I am subject to a lawsuit by the RIAA for distribution. If I have an MP3 collection of songs ripped off my own personal compact discs, on a home network, I am subject to a lawsuit because people in my home can access those MP3s and they didn't purchase the CD. Welcome to America, home of the free, where it's all about how much you pay your lawyer or *couch* your judge to win a case. Or of course if you just get the most incompetent judge (pretty much any under 25 years old or so is most likely going to be).
sinembarg0Sep 4, 2007
Right, so because copyrighted works are available over http and you can download them with a browser, then you're a pirate?