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Briton arrested over file sharing forums | enews@stuff99.com — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:39:28 +0000

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By: Briton arrested over file sharing forums | enews@stuff99.com

Briton arrested over file sharing forums | enews@stuff99.com — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:39:28 +0000

[...] is insane,” said one commenter on the Torrentfreak website, which broke the news. “I’m saddened by this news,” commented [...]

By: best to be known

best to be known — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:21:54 +0000

Listen everyone. Pirating is illegal Bu for the wrong reasons. When any issue like this occurs its over money and power. Never under estimate the police. be careful. I know the industry and this has become their new way of keeping their lawyers busy. But its more than that. These days only a few people are really making money on distributions and to be frank they are making more money than ever. pirating has become a form of free advertisement. They dont give two shit about people downloading because of losing profits they are trying to make as much money as they can. fight them. united we are strong and can over time win this battle of free speech over content. its with in our right to download and watch movies, listen to music, and read novel we cannot afford to own. Educational value of pirating is under estimated and the fight is placed in the wrong place. how many of you have wanted to become a musician because of listening to music you don’t own. refrain from distributing it for profit, bu dont allow any government tell you what you can and cannot learn from. especially art. i left out program but they serve the same purpose. it helps the economy world wide when people learn how to use over priced software at home and then are able to apply it to their jobs. please think about what i have said. the benefit of this kind of information exchange is crucial to our development as a culture. we need to fight those who stop us from doing so. trust me when you have billions your not hurting. almost every person whom has created the stuff that has been pirated has done so themselves at one point. maxing a mix tape is a perfect example. why are he heads of these company not arrested for the same crime that they have broken in their past? i leave everyone to ponder this statement of mine.

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Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:39:33 +0000

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By: method

method — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:45:51 +0000

Somerset police complaint form.

https://www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/contact/general_enquiries/complaint_form.aspx

Remember the complaint is about FACT mis-leading the police and being intimately involved in a criminal investigation and about them (as a private organisation) retaining the seized goods. Also, about how they’ve raided him as an individual on the grounds of downloading copyrighted content even though it is legal to do so under the “permitted acts” and released him on a charge of articles of infringement (which doesn’t apply to an individual, but instead relates to a business, and taking donations to support the hosting costs is not a “business” per se.

Be respectful and polite, just express your concerns about the influence and association between FACT and the police.

By: method

method — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:54:10 +0000

No anonymous, even wealthy people who are aware of their rights in relation to fair use can exercise those rights, those “permitted acts”.

Two simple examples:

If I download something and publicly state that it’s good, it sucks or even it’s just “okay”… I’ll have legimitately downloaded a copy for the purpose of review.

If I’m studying an artist, a genre, etc. for whatever reason, again, obtaining copies of copyrighted content can be perfectly legal without any need to get consent from the author(s).

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:17:57 +0000

you have 40k worth of stuff in your apartment and you pirate things? and here i thought it was only poor people pirating…

By: no

no — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:12:28 +0000

I don’t understand why the populations put up with this. This is a civil issue and not a truly “criminal” act. This isn’t assault and battery, murder, fencing, etc. The activity he’s accused of here is equivalent to a civil contract. Say, between you and your movie rental store or cell phone provider. Imagine if your cell phone provider could just have the police arrest you and imprison you because you violated or broke your cell phone contract? This isn’t much different.

I had about $40,000 worth of stuff stolen from my apartment awhile back and the cops never did anything. In fact, they kept making snide remarks that I probably did it to myself. Then they closed the case 90 days later after doing nothing. I guess I should have claimed that the burglar downloaded one movie off the internet and then they would have sent half of the FBI and every SWAT team around to deal with it for me, huh?