Comments on: Music Rights Group Sues ISPs Over “Pirate Tax”

By: SABAM chiede un risarcimento ai provider | SudTv Network

SABAM chiede un risarcimento ai provider | SudTv Network — Sun, 05 May 2013 09:36:12 +0000

[...] causa ai cosiddetti intermediari, gli alti rappresentanti di SABAM hanno chiesto il pagamento di una [...]

By: Belgio, gli ISP e i risarcimenti per la pirateria | SudTv Network

Belgio, gli ISP e i risarcimenti per la pirateria | SudTv Network — Sun, 05 May 2013 01:36:00 +0000

[...] causa ai cosiddetti intermediari, gli alti rappresentanti di SABAM hanno chiesto il pagamento di una [...]

By: Siti Internet Aziendali » Belgio, gli ISP e i risarcimenti per la pirateria

Siti Internet Aziendali » Belgio, gli ISP e i risarcimenti per la pirateria — Sat, 04 May 2013 14:24:24 +0000

[...] causa ai cosiddetti intermediari, gli alti rappresentanti di SABAM hanno chiesto il pagamento di una [...]

By: Protect your local ISP | Kevin Townsend

Protect your local ISP | Kevin Townsend — Sat, 04 May 2013 07:49:03 +0000

[...] liable for the content of the websites it hosts, where will it stop? There’s a conceptually similar case in Belgium, where the music rights group SABAM is suing ISPs for lost revenue through illegal music [...]

By: Exceed

Exceed — Fri, 03 May 2013 17:14:00 +0000

By reviewing the comments, it’s clear most of these posters don’t have a freaking clue what stealing is.

Stealing IS NOT downloading any kind of content. If you visit a friend, and they display a movie rented or otherwise, your watching that movie is NOT STEALING.

The argument of the “potential sale” is ludicrous when compared to the exposure that downloading and sharing provides.

Eg: The Movie “Taken” was released overseas first. 3 months before N. America got it. During that time, a generally mediocre film was advertised by word of mouth, shared and reshared so that when it came out they called it s “Sleeper” and one of the years best. There was almost no advertising locally for it.

Watching a movie trailer, isn’t stealing, nor is it stealing if you eventually buy a copy of the movie.

Real theft is when something is taken from you that you cannot get back, something that deprives you of your ability to enjoy that thing of which you were deprived.

Who puts a value on the 2 hours you suffer though a shit movie? This is real theft, not downloading a mid level movie that you will eventually purchase at some point anyway.

There is no way to equate the potential loss of a sale to the real purchases made by those same downloads after the fact, it would not be in the best interest of these anti sharing companies to present this data.

By: Mikko

Mikko — Fri, 03 May 2013 11:22:00 +0000

Sue the DMV for illigal traffic on the roads

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 03 May 2013 10:26:00 +0000

>double jeopardy is illegal.

Not in the UK.

By: IdiotHater

IdiotHater — Fri, 03 May 2013 08:53:00 +0000

What a fucktarded analogy. srsly.

By: IdiotHater

IdiotHater — Fri, 03 May 2013 08:46:00 +0000

Fucktarded analogy number 2. Keep going imbecile.

By: DiD

DiD — Fri, 03 May 2013 01:10:00 +0000

Actually, Google is not my friend, but a company whose services I use ;) Anyways, I indeed followed your suggestion and among the first 10 hits there was only ONE which explicitly mentions ‘pirate’. First hit is Wikipedia, as usual. Most site talk about changing copyright legally, and not about a ‘wild west’.

Getting back to the original topic: Asking an ISP for a fee for all traffic because some customers do potentially illegal things is ridiculous, and you know that very well.