One day the cops actually were let in by a friend of mine for an unrelated incident, he walked in saying “the cops are here” and we all laughed until 4 of them came into the house.

My asshole had never been tighter.

………. luckily nothing happened, they realised that we were not the people they were after. Oh and we just finished a joint before they came in :D

France sucks indeed.

all their lawsuits are like laundresses trying to make usage of laundry machines illegal.

why should we pay to someone for a job we can do ourselves?

They are paying for those download!

They paid their respective ISPs, Modem companies, Telco Companies, PC companies, Software companies, Electricity companies, media companies and they pay taxes.

So with that in mind why don’t you STFU! and take your rant elsewhere.

Pirates claim that downloading copyrighted thins is a right… Here is the bill of human rights
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu6/2/fs2.htm

I will give you a million dollars if you can find where it it mentions not paying for things.

“More of a people’s government?”

China is a people’s republic…

“which facilitates the illegal exchange of numerical files between Net surfers”

Yeah, peer-to-peer is illegal. The internets aren’t meant for exchanging files!

“i’m gonna get those program to chang my IP”

uh wat

“france sucks”

\o/

Same thing in France. This is a condensed version of the story. They had a warrant.

This can’t possibly last long though. The french aren’t exactly fond of cops in general.

There is a shit ton, check out Personal Video Database though.

I will also agree with True Crypt, I am timted to get rid of all my burt DVDs and just keep my 640gig encrypted drive.

all the lawyers get a million dollar bonus. The movie industrie’s managers too :P…

just cause they won 33000 whole euro’s.
Bit different that the, what was it, more than a million, for the 20 songs that american woman downloaded?

Nevertheless, i really have to congratulate all the movie studio’s and music studio’s with this fantastic victory… we are so happy for you that you have managed to get a whole 33000 euro’s… let’s say it again… 33… 1000… euro’s… so great that the poeple living on a ritirement can chip in to provide you with all that luxury… the 13 cars… the champagne every night…

The money probably went through the shredder as these people partied for having destroyed yet another life (sorry, sarcasm had to end somewhere ;)

Let nothing which you can be fined/go to jail for be unencrypted on your system.

Let the police come to my door :D

P2P Collection Costs Man Huge Fine, Suspended Sentence

Someone downloads thousands of copyrighted things has to pay $46,200, and someone downloads 24 songs and has to pay $1.92 million. I guess that means everyone needs to start downloading more copyrighted things (from 2 separate countries, but whatever).

Do something about it. Go out and protest, boycott ask the government to prioritize their laws. Millions are still living in poverty, unemployed, tortured, killed, assaulted, abused. Drug cartels are still running drugs and prostitution. Civil war are still raging but yet these crooks you call government main priority is to sue and put citizens in jail for downloading 1s and 0s.

Something is not right here!

Are they actually coming off the hard drugs?

Then again – anyone can still download silly amounts onto terabyte discs while being an unemployed no good screwup..perhaps sentencing should be a bit more circumstancial than just a 1:1 fee per item, especially considering the items aren’t stolen and there’s no loss if there was no money to buy them with..

Yes you are right they are :) But with digital age and distribution models advertisement(and alike monetization techniques) are only ones left that will work with digital content. Subscriptions, ads and some models that make your consumers to make work for you as they consume aether by becoming distributors or providing some services. But in the end it is still free + it gives a lot more value for a penny then DRM content ever produced or will produce.

Anyways labels are them selves at fault here as instead of turning enemies in to allies they waged war on digital freedoms undermining their own user base.

In the end it is all about value content creators produce. By locking up creations in tight copyrights and DRM and selling them at current prices they don’t produce and value for their user base. Rather they exchange values with their user base (if not taking more then it’s wroth even).

Also what do you think on creative commons? What do you think about sites that are built to leverage this “create, share, remix/remake” model based on creative commons? What do you think on stuff like “Here comes everybody” by Clay Shirky (check videos from various conferences btw)

Also are you here to discuss or to insult? Keep up calling people stupid 3 years olds, selfish, thieving asswipes and your words will be valued :D

So are you here to discuss and discover or insult and rant?

emule? all that from that network?
i should hide as ive got about 100gb of stuff on my pc. my country has already made it clear they dont like me too much.

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You don’t have to hide mate, just crypt it. Problem solved.

I wonder what will happen in Netherlands. Here downloading is LEGAL. (Uploading is not)

So, if Netherlands goes the same way as France and in a few years’ time, owning a collection like this French guy, becomes illegal: how do they determine what was downloaded BEFORE downloading became illegal?

They could not determine and like you said, “FUCK BREIN AND RIAA/MPAA AND SARKOZY” & Cartels

Thats what I was calling propaganda. [quote]his defense that it took him a whole year to accumulate the collection by using eMule on the eD2k network, but it was intended for private, not commercial use.[/quote]

See here: http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=47384

[quote]

In Spain, a judge has dismissed a case against a man who downloaded and shared 3322 copyrighted movies on the Internet. Despite efforts from local anti-piracy outfits, the legal system in Spain continues to stand firmly behind those who share music and movies without financial gain.

Today, the Criminal Court of Pamplona ruled that a man didn’t break any laws by downloading thousands of movies and an undetermined number of songs. The defendant was acquitted of copyright infringement charges because there was no evidence that he profited from downloading the movies and music, or sharing them with others. The judge acknowledged that the man indeed downloaded the files “without consent of the copyright holders” in 2003 and 2004, but ruled that he only did so for for “private use or sharing with other Internet users.” There was no financial gain, so no crime has been committed and the defendant walked free.
[/quote]

Of course the Cartels are behind this one after the above story broke. Hey they have the whole world to try to fuck up ya know.
[quote]Lawyers for 19 plaintiffs including the National Federation of Film Distributors, Sony, Paramount, Sacem and SCPP demanded between 1 and 2 euros compensation for each illicit MP3 and between 7 and 12.50 euros for each movie. It is believed that SCPP will collect the largest share of around 17,000 euros.[/quote]

The cartel had to have a story to counteract the one that it is legal (Spain) to download Downloading 3322 Copyrighted Movies is Okay in Spain May 29, 2009

http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=47384

I would seriously not put a dime of my pocket into the greedy nwo cartels.

From

http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=47848

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USA needs to invade Europe and sort us lot out. This is TERRORISM !! It’s a threat to US homeland security in these times of recession.

PS — There is plenty of OIL here too (North Sea)!

Obama, what r u waiting for?

its illegal to have fireworks that leave the ground here in Michigan but last night (july 4th) there was for about 8 hours (till 2am) fireworks going off all around my house. 2 people on my street 4 on the street across from mine and another 5 behind and a few others spread out randomly. there was more fireworks going off in my neighborhood then some of the big firework shows. smoke so heavy in the street you almost couldn’t breath and i couldn’t see the end of my street 1/4 mile down. if you can’t stop fireworks because people want to have some fun even tho its illegal what makes you think you are going to be able to stop some one from downloading a few songs.

theis8220@gmail.com

hope u see the message!

and remember: dont let ‘em bring you down, share on!!!

And this is France, where anti-piracy paranoia is comparative to Joseph Stalin.

I won’t touch on the humanitarian issues here, but from a legal standpoint (in France) this is perfectly fine. It seems as if they were not trying to ‘make an example of him’ but carry out their stupid and quite unfair laws (again, for an unfair law this is perfectly fair).

Stupid? Yes. Excessive? Not really.

I read all the comments above, and I am shocked how many people are posting that don’t realize this guy was not breaking the law.

Yes, it’s illegal in some countries, but no, it’s not illegal to download in all countries.

A fair fine? Would it be fair to charge you $300 for walking on your neighbor’s lawn, when doing so was only illegal in Australia? Oh, but it’s Australian grass! Pay up, or go to jail. (Note: I am not saying there is any such law. But there could be, in some country, and there would be no way of you or I knowing it.)

Pleassssse… theft is wrong, yes. But so is making up laws.

It’s a fair fine? Do YOU have $42,000+ in the bank? No? I doubt he does either.

He’ll be paying this fine for the next 20+ years, and if he misses a payment, he goes to jail. When, in fact, what he (and his children) did was NOT illegal in his country.

“Tell me another thing then. Do you pay for radio? Do you pay for TV? Do you pay for viewing this site? Or some other site?”

I’d imagine you are kidding, right? If you are being serious with that question, you have the cognitive abilities of a 3 year old.

All those models are advertising based including TF. Every moment you watch or read you are “paying” and if you use an adblock you are cheating the television, radio or website business model and you you have no right to be watching, listening or reading.

There will always be people who steal value, digital or otherwise, from others. Everyone in this issue understands that a distinct minority will take the steps they need to take without paying.

But as scrutiny and penalty ratchets up the vast majority will pay for what they take or live in the fear of discovery and punishment just as any lawbreaker should. At the end of the day pirates are being treated as the snotty little, selfish, thieving asswipes they truly are.

I can’t wait to see the “respect” they receive in Euro parliament. lol
It’s a sincere pleasure to see all this finally happening all over the world.
Finally.

RT
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