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- borez, on 06/07/2009, -3/+138What the ***** is the military doing getting involved in what is essentially a civil law copyright issue, and since when did the entertainment industry have the military in it's back pocket anyway? ***** outrageous is an understatement.
- samsmartjr, on 06/07/2009, -19/+129The United Nations will soon become a one world government not to extend human rights across the globe nor to provide nations peaceful means to settle differences besides waging war nor to protect and safeguard Earth's ecosystems but rather to ensure that international entertainment companies get their profit from their copyrighted materials and have the jurisdiction to enforce it.
- HeavyWave, on 06/07/2009, -2/+102"Delacroix hinted that there may be prosecutions around the corner for them too. “We are dealing with a truly international network""
What the ***** is he talking about? Is every bittorent user like a terrorist to them? - jester55, on 06/07/2009, -2/+89Why doesn't the military use its resources and time searching for actual criminals?
- Sloi, on 06/07/2009, -4/+60For the same reason police officers would rather go after mostly law-abiding citizens: we don't shoot back and it looks good for the statistics...
- inactive, on 06/07/2009, -0/+41"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people."
- Bill Adama - cortjezter, on 06/07/2009, -0/+31maybe if Bin Laden were to start illegally sharing some Britney Spears mp3s, the MPAA would quickly root him out...
- fredrockbluff, on 06/07/2009, -2/+25http://lmgtfy.com/?q=french+military+victories& ...
hehe. - Briandrews15, on 06/07/2009, -2/+19"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -Thomas Jefferson
- jeriqo, on 06/07/2009, -5/+22Wow, you seem to know France very well.
- Myztry, on 06/07/2009, -0/+16"On Tuesday, police backed up by members of ALPA"
How does a private paperwork organisation "back up" a Government police force? Are they needed in case violence breaks out and they have to fire sniper rounds from their prone positions on opposing rooftops?
I could understand: With evidence/intelligence provided by... commissioned to help with technical aspects/preliminary identification... ETC
But in no way could they be "backup by" a paper shufflers. Not unless "backed up" means under the instructions of the private entity, which would make the police a private army rather than Government law policing agents. - mrsteveman1, on 06/07/2009, -5/+21OMG you totally owned him.
There are opposing interests here, the interests of a copyright holder are not more important than everything else, and that is the direction things are going. - ABadPerson, on 06/07/2009, -1/+17I guess the military is short on cash so they wanted to make some money... like mercenaries.
- MrInfallible, on 06/07/2009, -0/+15"military assisted in locating the operators"
Thats the entire article, no detail at all. - derek20cali, on 06/07/2009, -2/+17France. Not the USA.
- FreddieD, on 06/07/2009, -2/+16Maybe he needs the comma there so he can pause because he is so mad about what the french government does he is about to burst with anger?
- tgc1, on 06/07/2009, -4/+18That is the direction we seem to be heading. The global media industry will stop at nothing to control their empire (the ***** machine).
- noblesnail, on 06/07/2009, -2/+15Am I the only one who thinks sensational stories like this needs better sources? Come on Torrent Freak, I'm about to decide if I should vote for the pirate party! And I want good reasons.
- hakz, on 06/07/2009, -3/+16why is it that everything the french government does, pisses me off?
- beerhound, on 06/07/2009, -0/+12Britney Spears mp3s? Now that is a weapon of terror!
- darkened, on 06/07/2009, -2/+13This shocks me as I remember in France a scene cammer was released after being caught actively camming a movie as he claimed it was for personal use.
- Moralogic, on 06/07/2009, -0/+11I would disagree with that. Like drugs in the US, mainly pot, they still flow like water through the streets. The torrent community will always be at least one step ahead of the war, and it seems they are picking up some momentum. A huge problem is that the US has give these A-holes too much power because the government gets paid off to easily, or they are too stupid to use their head and buy into whatever these people say. So our government is trying to force other countries to pass laws much like what we have, mainly Canada unluckily.
The torrents need to be held somewhere where they will always have power and high speed connection where law can not affect them. That leaves us a loose country that would allow it, the open seas, space, and the moon pretty much... or maybe just some place so damn well hidden and so many security loop holes and tricks to make it so the government can't find it. Or all of the above...
I don't even care about torrents, I care about consumer rights, but it seems that the companies are actually responding to the torrent situation. When EA and other game companies are just making games in a way that they are useless for resale when you dont want the game anymore, that isn't acceptable. They want to kill the second hand market because they know that most of their products suck. It is pretty bad when a blank disc is worth more than a used game, and that is the goal of EA and other companies out there right now. They use piracy just as an excuse to try to kill the second hand market, and it is sick. If piracy was their main concern, then they would be able to deactivate all piracy prevention other than the serial key when first installing the game once the game initially gets pirated. Spore should have NEVER had DRM.
I still don't get why anyone buys any products from companies that do stuff like that... I am done with all Microsoft products, because I went through 3 Xboxs and 3 X360s. There is no reason for hardware to fail so horridly, and I refuse to pay for repairs for their bloody mistakes. It isn't my fault their people can't do their damn job.
So Linux with Wine is the OS for me for now on. It is free, I can use all the same software, and it actually preforms better than Microsoft's OSs. - inactive, on 06/07/2009, -4/+15So...the French military has a victory?
That's it. Game over. - MrInfallible, on 06/07/2009, -0/+10France has seperation of powers as well.
- artfiend77, on 06/07/2009, -3/+13Top notch trolling there.
- ArthurSucks, on 06/07/2009, -1/+10***** la RIAA!
- InfernoX, on 06/07/2009, -1/+10Steam is still DRM moron.
The worst part about Steam is that Valve reserves the right to take your games away, you don't own any of them. - Sabretou, on 06/07/2009, -0/+8Agent HeavyWave, transport code seed material 'ALPHA TANGO 7 6' to 'CHARLIE ZULU 9 3 2 2' and maintain protocol, over.
- omnithought, on 06/07/2009, -1/+9Wow....what a wise use of military resources. Not like there's anything more important to worry about.
- Sloi, on 06/07/2009, -0/+8So say we all.
- UnWeave, on 06/07/2009, -1/+9I take it you don't like commas, either? Also a tad sensationalist, I feel. For one thing, it's France - they've hardly been BitTorrent's biggest fan of late. Not that I don't think the military's involvement here is completely ***** ridiculous, and how the ***** were they allowed to intervene in a purely civil matter in the first pace?
- InfernoX, on 06/07/2009, -1/+9Seems to me that they were making money off it. That kind of goes against the whole "INFORMATION IS FREE" rhetoric doesn't it?
- greevar, on 06/07/2009, -1/+9***** MAFIAA sucks!
- jonsterling, on 06/07/2009, -0/+8I haven't heard that one before.
Wait… - javaroast, on 06/07/2009, -1/+9Name the last $200 million dollar movie that actually was based on an original idea..... right you can't. Thanks for playing.
- eleete, on 06/07/2009, -0/+7Name ANY single original idea that has no basis on the past. Please I beg you to. There is no such thing, we all stand on the shoulders of giants. IP laws go directly against the thought of allowing free speech, freedom of information and the Public Domain. The greatest good known on earth is the Public Domain of information. All else is an argument for retarding humanity. NO intellect is worthy of ownership. Nor is it even possible via physics or any other law.
- xtreme571, on 06/07/2009, -3/+10when will they learn...one site goes down many come up.
more they piss of people, more people are going to hate them and buy less of their crap. - Friskus, on 06/07/2009, -0/+7Courtesy of Montesquieu
- evergrim, on 06/07/2009, -3/+10Shutup Grandpa.
- retral, on 06/07/2009, -1/+8Saying "makes you look stupid" ..makes you look stupid.
- inactive, on 06/07/2009, -3/+9Yeah but its all good if you buy the single / LP / Cassette / CD / Mp3 ooops your PC blow up? New Mp3. oops they shut down the server. new Mp3 oh wait you need a new license for that Mp3 Player. New mp3.
Now that ***** just drives me ***** insane!
If they close torrent sites I am making it a mission to randomly dump DVD's of music on Public transport. I will organise Music and Media Swap meets where Terabytes get shared and I hope to find the best Hard Copy pirates in town. Like drugs we can go perfectly underground and they can't do *****! ***** em! - tgc1, on 06/07/2009, -5/+11So much for separation of powers.
- jjesusfreak01, on 06/07/2009, -1/+7Compliments of people in the rest of the EU that actually work for a living...
- mrsteveman1, on 06/07/2009, -2/+8I didn't miss anything, i'm pointing out that enforcing copyright is turning into a situation where all other considerations are secondary, this isn't acceptable. Time and again the interests of copyright holders are at odds with the freedoms and rights individuals and even other corporations enjoy, and repeatedly copyright holders interests have won. They've bought and paid for laws turning fair use into a permission rather than a right, and this story seems to be about the use of military intelligence to find a ***** server and its owners, just because they pirated copyrighted content. That isn't a legitimate use of government intelligence services.
By the way, copyright holders don't own *****, they have been granted exclusive right to control distribution of their work for what was supposed to be a limited period of time. Comparing the rights a copyright holder enjoys to the rights a landowner enjoys is completely ridiculous, one is concrete property the other is not. There is no slippery slope argument here. - yardie, on 06/07/2009, -0/+5The Gendarmerie Nationale is hardly military and barely intelligent. If anything they are more like highway patrol or country sheriff. If you have ever gotten a speeding ticket in France or one of it's territories it would be signed by your very happy national police. I still don't agree with using police for such matters. But the corporations have the French government wrapped around their finger they'll do anything to please them.
- physixx, on 06/07/2009, -2/+7The problem is that we as consumers have had mass-produced, unimaginative mainstream music and movies pushed down our throats at a ridiculous price, only available on a physical medium like the CD. The media corporations have relied on controlling production and distribution, driven completely by their own interest in profit without consideration to what the consumers want or like.
Internet = free and fast distribution. It's not going away. Downloading music is like marketing, it spreads knowledge of the artist. If you want make money of it, offer something better than a free download. People will pay for value, not for *****. "Intellectual property" was never conceived for our modern world. It enforces artificial scarcity on the internet, where information is abundant.
Wake up and smell the coffee asshat. - pissshivers, on 06/07/2009, -2/+7Must have obviously been a matter of national security...
- AraleNorimaki, on 06/07/2009, -0/+5what a waste of tax payer money
hey military intelligence
where is osama bin laden?
http://engeldvh.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/where- ... - JMilton, on 06/07/2009, -32/+36France. Land of fascism.
- eleete, on 06/07/2009, -0/+4You are both morons hell bent on profiting and using IP laws as an advanced form of welfare rather than what it was truly created for. Even copyright laws ALL have the foundation that eventually the IP will become Public Domain. You are both extremely greedy. If copyright is for the artist, then please tell me what either of you truly 'produce'. Not in industry terms, an idea is not copyrightable nor is it IP. Please tell me what YOU produce. My guess is you dare not to respond.
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