Comments on: Court Acquits BitTorrent User Citing Faulty Evidence

By: demo

demo — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 07:53:23 +0000

“demanding $43 million from the defendant and his company for assisting in the illegal distribution of Office 2003 and 2007″

Its either stolen source code or misuse of patented work. Invalid argument M$.

As for the “screenshot” of uTorrent. I’m guessing this anti-p2p group downloaded the torrent and connected to the swarm in order to see the peers/seeders. So makes you wonder why they didn’t get accused of filesharing either. Once you connect to a torrent swarm, you are officialy downloading the content so to speak.

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By: should help

should help — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:52:35 +0000

Microsoft: ‘Piracy no longer poses a threat to us’

http://freakbits.com/microsoft-piracy-no-longer-poses-a-threat-to-us-1202

Despite Piracy No Longer Being a Threat, Microsoft Takes Action Against It

http://freakbits.com/despite-piracy-no-longer-being-a-threat-microsoft-takes-action-against-it-1205

By: Anti-piracy

Anti-piracy — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:24:17 +0000

I think it’s only first instance Court decision…. We need to see the decision in English there. Can Ernesto to give us this?

By: Borderliner

Borderliner — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:06:45 +0000

> FTA: “To be used as such, the
> developers would also have to give
> their approval, something that
> obviously didn’t happen in this
> case.”
> Sorry? what a load of crap.

Not really. uT is a closed source program and nobody, except the developers, know what is really going on behind the user interface. What if some if the data it presents ain’t (completelly) correct, what if some data ain’t being shown to the user at all? Things that aren’t neccessarily a problem unless the data is being used in a court which, in essence, demands transparency and correct handling.
It in the line of using the kitchen knife to perform a surgical operation – sure, you could do it, but would the manufacturer of the knife (assuming you bother to ask them, which in this case did not happen) also agree that his product is the right choice?

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By: Hadopi nie dzia?a we Francji, w Hiszpanii wspó?dzielenie plików jest legalne

Hadopi nie dzia?a we Francji, w Hiszpanii wspó?dzielenie plików jest legalne — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:37:34 +0000

[...] to zupe?nie legalne. SAGE liczy?a na co? zupe?nie innego, taki wynik to katastrofa da firmy. Na Litwie grupa zwalczaj?ca piractwo LANVA przegra?a spraw? w s?dzie przeciw znanemu serwerowi [...]

By: Hadopi does not work in France, file-sharing legal in Spain

Hadopi does not work in France, file-sharing legal in Spain — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:40:53 +0000

[...] In Lithuania anti-piracy outfit LANVA has lost its case against a user of the prominent BitTorrent tracker LinkoManija.net. Self-proclaimed investigators evidence consisted of a screenshot of peers as listed by uTorrent. The evidence was gathered in conjunction with a local police officer, but none of the parties involved was authorized to conduct an investigation of this kind. Citing faulty evidence judge closed the case and stated that LANVA had no right to collect and use the information they gathered. In addition, the judge ruled that such evidence gathering techniques have to be approved before they can be used. [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:49:29 +0000

” The reason microsoft does ANYTHING
about “piracy” is that they have to
in order to keep the protection offered by various IP-laws . If they do nothing at all it’s the same as saying “we don’t mind” . And they really don’t mind that millions of people who can’t afford to buy a legal copy use a pirated one (India, China etc ) because having a 90% market-share is more worth than the “lost” revenue from the copies used by people who couldn’t afford it anyway .

And my proof for this claim is the fact that easier “pirating” windows than it is stealing candy from kids.
If they wanted to they could end the “illegal” use tomorrow .”

What garbage – why would MS prefer 90% market share with piracy instead of (off the top of my head) 60% share with 30% more people paying for their product?

“The reason microsoft does ANYTHING
about “piracy” is that they have to
in order to keep the protection offered by various IP-laws”

Way to make things up – you cannot find one single shred of evidence for this, legal or otherwise. No company is required to take any action at all to maintain it’s copyright or any other protections. Dimwits.

“If they wanted to they could end the “illegal” use tomorrow .”

Bullcrap again – name one client side based piece of software on the PC that has not had it’s copy protection circumvented.

Peter, your whole post is so full of fail it’s ridiculous. All exmaples and evidence you give somehow managed to be the exact *opposite* of reality. Trying too hard … issue rubbed you the wrong way and you got into a bit of a tizzy? LOL