In the US you can be convicted for possession of drugs even though there is no evidence. The accusation is all that is needed.

CMON people don’t pick of these majestic dinosaurs, if a few hundred thousand Americans have to be feed to appease the beast then so be it(and lose everything they have in the process). Heck downloading one of the mostly crappy movies that are made should be worth your life, heck how would we have lived without cult classics like THE HULK, The lakehouse and all the other bile spewed up these days.

More content the rest of the world can just download i guess….

Besides who needs to make good movies when you can make 100k or whatever per person dumb enough to download anything.

REASON IS OVERRATED XD
Like paying tom cruise to be in anything… But reason/common sense does not apply….

that is all

This is the bottom line, in all honesty. The MPAA is getting extremely desperate (as is the RIAA) so they are throwing out every bullshit argument they can think of in order to hopefully get one to stick.
Guess what? IT ISN’T GOING TO! Jammie Thomas is going to get a new trial. Another case was just thrown out of the courts, and the person the RIAA sued was given legal fees and punitive damages against the RIAA.
Things are just NOT going the way the MPAA and RIAA want them to go.

They’re saying that “making files available” is equal to “authorising the downloads”, right?

If so, and downloaders are “authorised”… Then downloading files in all cases becomes legal, the sole responsibility lays with the uploader?

If people are STILL not authorised to download, then the uploaders are simply “making available” and so they can’t be held responsible.

Seriously, there’s lots of cases where the US laws aren’t logical:

Ex(real examples): a spammer sends lots of people spam mail without showing the senders email address (which can be done somehow). Recipient tracks the IP and finds the real email address or something like that, posts on blog about it. Said spammer sues recipient for defamation. Said recipient countersues under CANSPAM act. Said spammer wins because “the email address is there since the recipient managed to figure out the spammer’s identity”….that’s flawed logic. If you don’t know the spammers identity, how are you supposed to press charges?! If you know it, then you can’t press charges?!

Another example:
Thief gets into a person’s house. Gets stuck in the garage, can’t get out. Said owner are on a vacation. Owner comes back, finds thief near death, gives food, hospitalizes, doesn’t even press charges immediately, and thief sues owner for not having “food” in the house (or something like that). Said thief WINS the court case.

MPAA are getting VERY desperate by the sound of it!!

@alecy…you are a moron and i despise everything you stand for..hope you Rott in spam heaven wiv the rest of the scumbag spammers

BWA-HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I demand that we track down the traitors and lobotomize them before they teach them how to form illogical sentences.

alecy.com

Goon:
“GRRRRRRRR”

Superior:
“What’s wrong?”

Goon:
“I lost my game of pinball, those damn file sharing jackasses are going to pay!”

Superior:
“Good idea, but how are we gonig to get them?”

Goon:
“We’ll replace the judge and re-write the law, besides, I need some money so I can pay for this full download site.”

What a bunch of fools, how the hell can you say you DON’T need evidence, what would they be accusing anyone of?

By that same token though, I’m going to sue the MPAA for intellectual property theft as well. I have hidden plans for an Electronic Pickle ™ on my system, and they’ve downloaded it. Going to sue them for millions, and the best part is I don’t have to prove it. Wahh it’s just too hard.

Lawless

Law = evidence

I mean, can these statements be refuted (or supported) from law book of copyright infringement?

Evidence: None

Verdict: GUILTY!

Although the Constitution of the United States does not cite it explicitly, presumption of innocence is widely held to follow from the 5th, 6th and 14th amendments. See also Coffin v. United States

Go back to your little cubicle job robot man.

As to America being the land of the free, I don’t remember where I read this, but here you have the freedom to be a slave or the freedom to starve. As for another reference, you’re never free till you lose everything. Time to choose though, be a slave or starve?

“without having to proof that someone”

“without having to proove that a copyright infringement”

“they should not have to proove anything.”

- In all cases, the correct spelling is ‘prove’

I’m not bagging you out, its just that when reading an article, I tend to lose confidence in the author if they repeatedly make the same mistakes. Perhaps putting your articles through a spell checker before submitting them would be a good idea.

(This comment is in no way grammatically correct, it’s just an informal response)

In conclusion, TorrentFreak rocks, MPAA sucks :P

Another corporate hack to add to the list. No big surprise that she’s with the asshats at Wolff & Donnelly, the same douchebags that represent the thieves that stole Shareaza. Funny how all the turds end up swimming in the same bowl.

For those who would like to express a more “personal” opinion here’s her info:

Marie L. van Uitert
Plaza VII, Suite 3300
45 South Seventh Street
Minneapolis, MN 55402

Telephone: 612-607-7336
Email: mvanuitert@oppenheimer.com

Her photo: http://i25.tinypic.com/eu0a60.jpg

Her bio page: http://www.oppenheimer.com/attorneys/detail.asp?owdid=965

MediaDefender has torrents available to be shared. Maybe this is a good thing, the anti-pirate industry can start self destructing from the inside and all we have to do is watch.

That’s the epitome of a police state! The same thing happened to the entertainment industry back in the 1950′s with the black list! Even if you associated with known communists in your past, you were branded as communist (guilt by association) and unless you named names, you would be black listed!

As a Canadian, I find it ironic that American politicians are willing to make guilt by association on copyright infringement a law but what’s more criminal is the number of Americans without health insurance or basically hold inadequate insurance that won’t cover the costs of major illness–now that’s criminal! It’s OK to let the poor die of cancer but if some kid illegally downloads a song, he/she needs to be punished to the fullest extent of the law!

American politicians’ priorities are ass backwards!

sounds dutch to me, and I thought the dutchies were smart :-P

http://www.senate.gov

http://www.house.gov

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No it is not. There are plenty of things that are illegal that do not harm others, therefore Americans (like the rest of the world) are not free.