LOL

Its an exact.. and i do mean exact.. comparison.

we better burn all our books less someone read them and commit copyright infringement..

ping

Of course it will. And the pessimist in me suspects the ePhone will lose in the Supreme Court because that’s where all the bribes^C^C^C^C^C, sorry I mean lobby money, go.

Thank you. That’s my grab-a-granny night sorted. Can I download one too?

yeah! this story has entered the popular today section on popurls.com…

50k closest friends… I LOL’ed.

Recently a CD of mine stopped being recognized by the drives and I downloaded it from BT. Am I a pirate? =[

As I read this article a thought occurred to me, this past weekend some friends of mine hit a few garage sales and bought a collection of D&D role playing mags, I may be wrong but that was an illegal sale/purchase according to current copyright laws…wasnt it?

Then he just happens to store them on an ftp server, as opposed on a regular box that cannot be accessed from outside.

Doesn’t bother me in the least though.. In fact, I just wish I knew this guy well enough to have the logins to his ftp server.

This is a very nice idea.

The sad thing is SOMEBODY SOLD HIM OUT!!

Sensitive data should never be posted online or maintained on the cloud without at least encryption with that said there is tons of space on it(cloud) an to many it is easy to use the cloud than it is to setup a storage server in the house and lets not forget the need to back up data in different physical locations to guarantee that data survives in case of natural disaster.

I can clearly see how this kind of thing will grow in the future, with more speed and capacity new uses will be made available, people today can use GMail to store data just look at FSGmail it is cheaper then to buy an HDD.

Unfortunately, we can’t rely on lawyers always being incompetent.

While I neither deny nor confirm they were purchased, can you kindly explain to me why “not deleting them” indicates to you they were pirated?

I happen to buy a lot of classical music CDs and DVDs, these are mostly from indie and small companies as its not enough money for the majors to fiddle with (Mozart, Paganini, Bach etc) and as i do so i rip them to my laptop so i dont have to bother with popping a new cd/dvd in when i want to change albums as well as get better battery life as theres no CD to spin, plus i can just keep my albums in a box saving shelve space… but occasionally, I do run out of hdd space and i have deleted several albums just to re-rip them once i upgrade my hdd/s – a perfectly legit example of my own use of why “not deleting them” does not have to mean they were pirated.

Doesn’t matter. If I have something in my possession, I don’t have to prove to anyone that I own it. It’s up to them to prove that it was stolen. For example, a book publisher can’t get a warrant to go into my house and demand to see the receipts for every book on my bookshelf.

That quote is in reference of someone PURCHASING 2000 audio books for personal use. It doesn’t matter how many movies or songs you have on your HD if you purchased them. The fact that you reference “not deleting them” indicates that they pirated them, not ripped them from the DVD they purchased.

Just a little while back it would be hard for many to belive anyone would have over a thousand movies and 50k songs… but ummm, a friend of mine does, as do other friends because with huge harddisks at cheap prices, its pretty easy to just keep them instead of deleting them.
Audio books hardly takes up space and for all you know this guy travels a lot and needs to constantly refer to them.

Had he NOT password protected them, this would be an entirely different story, but since it was password protected…. whatever i have behind my wall is none of anyones f*cking business.

It’s also interesting to note that two of the five judges opposed this decision and reasoned that since there were lots of files on the server there must have been lots of people having access to it (that’s also what the lower court whose decision was now overturned argued) which should be enough for probable cause.

No. No license can be in collision with law. I can’t put a line in licence agreement (that nobody reads during program install) that all your base are belong to me.

And, no, I don’t believe for a second that someone would store 2000 audio books on an FTP for personal use, if they can prove the host was letting others access the data, he will lose.

i’m a pirate, this has no bearing on anything p2p, sorry.

good to hear tho, good news indeed.

If the book publishers had investigated and proved a wide availability of login information the situation would be very different.

And now they know better.

#1: Not only customers voted. I voted, with no login and no asking whether I was a customer. They asked the public.

#2: While this is indeed great news, it may not be relevant – this was (as stated) a *private* FTP server, which was *the reason the case was closed*. Had this been on bittorrent it would most likely have gone the other way…