that’s what you get from living in a world of capitalism

its the whole system that should be reviewed not just the file sharing …

if they have the rights to distribute and they place it as a bait to sue after it’s just that, FRAUD…

I feel sorry for the persons who have imcompetent lawyers to defend them and can’t pull them out of this…

I think i’m going to start downloading again from P2P so they sue me and in the end they’ll get sued… and pay me for emtrapment and fraud!

He said nothing about putting the files on P2P networks. He clearly said that they acquire the rights to sell the content in STORES, not P2P.

What this company does is to act as a copyright-protecting PROXY. Instead of having Universal, EMI, etc. monitoring and chasing down each infringement, this company licenses the rights to the more popular works, tracks illegal downloads, and takes infringers to court. Because they have acquired the license for the work in question, they have the legal right to sue, and once the case is over, they distribute the monies accordingly.

There is nothing whatsoever about honey-pots.

People will not stop using the internet for data and information sharing, ever. And trying to lever the moral high ground of “protecting the creative and artists” kind of gets screwed by the readily apparent real TRUTH behind it in things like this.

A pox on this company as well as on the RIAA for their shameful tactics.May they all suffer a painful and ignominious death.

Being informed is being blessed, spread this article throughout the world so people will stop paying and they’ll go bankrupt.

Bastards. You are all too low to be called human.

Disgusting, utterly disgusting. I am ashamed of the world I live in.

Thank you, that was my exact though aswel.

I understand if one sees an opertunity to make money but its obvious that the harder you scheme and the more you are able to grab within the grey of the law it doesnt matter but if you share there is no flow of money nothing to be made so thats not a good thing.

how is this even legal, a random person with no interest for artists or copyright but uses these tools to grab money for himself good BUT people sharing it without profit is bad.

this planet has gone completly bonkers.

People only hate them because they want people to pay for their things and not just lazilly sit in front of their computer and steal everything off the internet.

Wrong, people hate them because they try to impose a model that nobody wants plain and simple.

Digital is not physical and if you want and analogue the closest is TV and Radio do people pay for those?

@74,
It’s a really good point thrown in here. Either they are doing something illegal or we are just getting free legal copies of media.

How on earth should downloading that file be illegal? the submiter of that torrent had the rights to distribute that file … so it’s not a crime for ppl to download that file!

it is so insane what business-models grew over the recent years … it’s disgusting to make profit by exploiting other people!

i thought you sue someone because he/she caused you damage… WRONG … Today you sue someone to screw his life and make profit… SHAME ON THE PEOPLE WORKING FOR DIGIPROTECT, MAFIAA and all the other copyright-abuser

No, I meant it’s important to them now that it’s about taking money for themselves.

And what is it that these people want you to pay for? Their legal fees that wouldn’t exist if not for their own actions? The industry is constantly extracting money from the artists including the dead ones. Maybe you should bother to get your facts straight before formulating opinions.

The movies/games/music that you download.

Calling the RIAA the MAFIAA is almost funny. People only hate them because they want people to pay for their things and not just lazilly sit in front of their computer and steal everything off the internet.

Considering the alternative that they do. Lease a distribute to store license for what ever movie, and start downloading it from a zillion P2P uploaders, and assuming, for keeping stuff a bit more simple, the uploaders didn’t legally obtain the copy, wouldn’t all the nasty pirates in those swarms actually own legal bits and pieces of those copies?

I guess, of course, they could sue for all the supposedly illegal bits and pieces.

What is important?
Real corporate pirates sharing their loot?

Not that much, those guys will have a tough time trying to get people when they move to darknets so it is really not a problem at all. But it will be difficult to share profits from lawsuits, unless people start suing without the burden of proof.

The only thing missing is a client that is easy to install, configure and use as the ones that exist today are not easy to do so just yet.

86: the only way to battle that is to open as much torrent sites as possible and involve as much people into downloading as possible.

And what is it that these people want you to pay for? Their legal fees that wouldn’t exist if not for their own actions? The industry is constantly extracting money from the artists including the dead ones. Maybe you should bother to get your facts straight before formulating opinions.

Viva La Resistance!

Yep sharing is caring and they care deeply about themselves LoL

Sharing is Caring, huh?

thanks for the eye opening article.

its a shame the music and movie people just don’t get it :(

We are witnessing the end of 1 part of the file sharing community. 3 other parts to go.

And we will use your own weapons.

This could be entrapment in some jurisdictions but in other it may be perfectly legal and then again justice obey the money not the public or only listen to the public when they get really angry which is not the case, hardcore thinkers are a minority until the great public feels the pain like in the U.S. that people stop buying music because of the industry infinite windows trying to teach people what they can and cannot do.

About learning the law, that should be up to some kind soul that knows the law and can explain to others but not just that, law is interpreted and you gotta know how laws are interpreted in the local jurisdictions. If you try to negate copyright in Texas you are out of luck, if you try to reason with chinese courts you will be send to labor camps, in Russia you disappear, in south america you also disappear, in the U.K. you will be thrown in jail and france probably you may end up in jail too.

Violent criminals can use this defense successfully, so why not use it for filesharing?

well, i guess it’s the thought that counts.

Yeah, like the MAFIAA and these guys are doing:

“Waa, waa, waa, we want more money for our ridiculous crap, we will buy rights to distribute them and then entrap people and ask them to pay us…”

This is totally illegal. Please tell me what’s their entrapment website, I want to download a lot of stuff from there.

If they have bought the rights to distribute content it’s not illegal to download it. Secondarily, if I upload and share the content which I got from them, there’s nothing they can do about it, hey that’s not what GFF are trying to do as well?

If these people are allowing everybody to download for free, it means that they consider their stuff free, therefore we can also share their stuff for free, lmao!

Please somebody give me their torrent website!