Comments on: Mother Who Banned File-Sharing Still Held Responsible

By: anonymous

anonymous — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:34:33 +0000

Wait a minute, who’s to say the mother didn’t do it and she’s just blaming it on the kids?
So how old are these “several young children” exactly?
I have a hunch these “children” are probably 5-10 years old and have no idea how to use a computer let alone download and share a torrent.

By: 96edwy

96edwy — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:55:33 +0000

haha why should she block file sharing sites, its not the sites that are illegal, stupid courts. it could have been anyone on that connection if it was wireless

By: me

me — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:32:26 +0000

#124: “the same laws apply to anybody”

… but law enforcement doesn’t. C’mon, whom would your state (i.e. procecutors) go after: the little guy who has barely enough to survive day to day, or huge multibillion dollars/euros of taxes generating multinational entertainment cartels that, incidentally have enough leverage to make or destroy politicians’ careers? I mean, seriously?

By: from germany

from germany — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:20:36 +0000

Try to turn their rules against them..
For anyone savvy enough to read log files for attack attempts, do so – and check whether any of the botnetted static ips that happen to attack you are related to that business, i.e. one of the users of such an ip happens to be a MI or anti-piracy lawyer website.
Anyone going to volunteer with a list of ip addresses?

That court, and other court rulings before, have said it: if you operate a computer, you sort of endanger the world. If that applies to a home box on dsl, it should apply to a box in a computer center that has 100mb wiring

also think the french way (three strikes) the other way: if a music company is found guilty for pirating somebody’s songs (that has happened for sure) why not cut their website?

After all, both german and french laws say that the same laws apply to anybody

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[...] Mother Who Banned File-Sharing Still Held Responsible A mother who doesn’t understand computers and forbade her children from downloading and sharing music on the Internet has been held responsible for their actions. A court in Germany ruled that parents simply banning file-sharing is not enough, and this has to be followed up to check compliance. [...]

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By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:22:57 +0000

Not running a web server! Where did you get that from? Your totally missing the point, it follows from my previous statement about blocking all ports except 80. READ READ READ READ how many more times!

@118/119

By: german01

german01 — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:55:36 +0000

In germany the idea is, that somebody ist got to be held responsible. They just want fileshating to stop by all means. You can find a lot of informationd about the situation in germany on the homepage of the layer Wachs : http://www.dr-wachs.de

By: abolish copyright now

@112
physical packaging is sold and digital packaging is free on the internet.

this illustration is from another poster on torrentfreak:

“When I buy music (and I own almost 500 CDs) I want to actually buy something real… I want an actual thing… not a piece of data that I could download for free. I want my disc and album cover and booklet. I want to have a collection of music I can actually see. That I can put on a bookshelf (or media shelf) to
display my collection. Right next to my bookshelf with books for the same reason, I read books from the library and buy the ones that are really good to add to my collection, many of which I’ve never opened cuz I already read it from the library or a paperback passed from friend/family.”

digital content is advertising for physical packaging and services.

creators who can get their work widely copied and used will thrive. you benefit from other people using your work. creators who are monopolists of information
will not be able to compete and will eventually fail.

advertising other companies products can be used in physical packaging and services such as websites.

if you are concerned about fraudulent producers or publishers the best advice to protect the small guy against a producer fraudulently using the small guys work of authorship is for the small guy to be sure of the producers reputation. a good producer will not risk their reputation by fraudulently using the small guys work of authorship. also it is a whole lot more trouble to exclude the small guy rather than work with the small guy as needed during production.

the end result would be that there is much more information for society to benefit from when copyright is abolished.

for a better understanding of a post copyright world including the fund-and-release system for making money please read the following article and post your comments:

http://questioncopyright.org/promise

By: network

network — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:05:49 +0000

and one more thing, if you run a server on port 80, you can still connect to other servers on port 80, running a webserver on your system has no effect on whether you can connect to other systems, the only limitation is that there must be a listening server on the remote system on that particular port