Comments on: $7,000 Damages for Sharing a “For Dummies” Book on BitTorrent

By: Wonderfool

Wonderfool — Wed, 22 May 2013 10:07:00 +0000

So basically, guilty untill proven innocent. Thats a new one, even for copyright trolls.

By: Tom Sullivan

Tom Sullivan — Tue, 21 May 2013 20:10:00 +0000

Perhaps you don’t realise the irony when you refer to the movie industry? Do you know why they located in Hollywood? I’ll give you a clue. It wasn’t the weather. It was to escape the MPPC patents that they would otherwise be forced to pay if they stayed on the east coast. Sauce for the goose?

By: XYLUM

XYLUM — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:45:00 +0000

Boycott the “for dummies” books completely now, the publisher is a greedy and litigious 1%’r.

Suing someone for 7000 dollars that couldn’t afford a 10 dollar book is ridiculous and moronic.

They believe a few people downloading torrented copies of a couple books is hurting them financially, without a thought that maybe these people will appreciate the quality and content of their brand and then become customers that actually purchase those and/or other titles from them.

Boycott them completely.

By: James Smith

James Smith — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:04:00 +0000

Dear pirates presenting to you 2 million ebooks :D

http://ebookoid.com/

By: Vectraat

Vectraat — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 02:49:00 +0000

Why do people think that a VPN even keeps you safe?
You do realize that the authorities can just subpoena the IP and the VPN company will be forced to hand over all your details.

I’m not going to use some IP in a country wherein copyright isn’t strictly enforced and end up with shitty internet speeds.

By: marxmarv

marxmarv — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 23:54:00 +0000

Let them go quietly instead of inventing new exclusive rights for themselves. It’s not like they were doing much besides palace stenography anyway.

By: marxmarv

marxmarv — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 23:53:00 +0000

Speak of the Devil and he shall appear…

By: marxmarv

marxmarv — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 23:32:00 +0000

Movie producers budget anywhere from $50k to $5 million for a screenplay. $100k for a Dummies book of about the same number of words is barely fair, once you factor in all the other costs of turning your giant Word file into a bound, printed, retail-ready volume.

By: marxmarv

marxmarv — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 23:18:00 +0000

Actually, penalties for lawbreaking tend to be *quite* proportional to the effect on the state’s prestige and the authority of the political class. Person-on-person crimes have approximately middling penalties. Person-on-public crimes have light penalties, approaching meaningless if your crime helps the state’s ends. Questioning the state’s authority? Decades in prison.

Ridiculous penalties for victimless crimes are the hallmark of a nation of men, not of laws.

By: xpmule

xpmule — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 01:38:00 +0000

Sure you can.. Its called an ADS stream.. you can bundle anything you want ;)