Comments on: RIAA Anti-Piracy Partner Clueless About BitTorrent

By: Danish anti-pirates defeated-TorrentFreak « FACT – Freedom Against Censorship Thailand

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:35:51 +0000

[...] for copyright holders in Denmark, it is worth noting that Danish anti-piracy tracking company DtecNet remains the main partner of the RIAA and other music groups in countries where governments are [...]

By: Anti-Piracy Group Throws in the Towel, Pirates Walk Free @ blog.idtorrent.org

Anti-Piracy Group Throws in the Towel, Pirates Walk Free @ blog.idtorrent.org — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:57:47 +0000

By: Anti-Piracy Group Throws in the Towel, Pirates Walk Free – FUCK THE RIAA

Anti-Piracy Group Throws in the Towel, Pirates Walk Free – FUCK THE RIAA — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:51:31 +0000

By: Anti-Piracy Group Throws in the Towel, Pirates Walk Free | We R Pirates

Anti-Piracy Group Throws in the Towel, Pirates Walk Free | We R Pirates — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:37:36 +0000

By: Anti-Piracy Group Throws in the Towel, Pirates Walk Free - P2P Talk?

Anti-Piracy Group Throws in the Towel, Pirates Walk Free - P2P Talk? — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:19:24 +0000

By: Moblog

Moblog — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:03:32 +0000

Demand for Immediate Take Down – Notice of Infringing Activity …

Seit einigen Wochen erhalte ich unentwegt automatisch generierte Emails von “DtecNet AntiPiracy” wegen angeblicher Urheberrechtsverletzungen. Die Emails gehen dabei an die als Abuse-Kontakt gelistete Adresse für einen bestimmten, kleinen IP-Bereich….

By: More Junkmail from Bob, #211 « xpda

More Junkmail from Bob, #211 « xpda — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:59:57 +0000

[...] http://torrentfreak.com/riaa-anti-piracy-partner-cluele… [...]

By: Encore666

Encore666 — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:36:57 +0000

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By: jake

jake — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:42:57 +0000

It’s strange. Perhaps every older generation tries to control the technology of the younger generation. More than ever before, I think, the older generation has zero clue what they are dealing with. I also think it is likely that it is too late for them. They can never understand. Thus, their efforts will always be laughable and ineffective.
Art no longer belongs to the rich. It belongs to the masses…rightly.

By: Johnm

Johnm — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:39:33 +0000

The other problem is what they use these reports for. They lobby government beurocrats/legislators who have no idea how science is done (which is exactly what this paper purported to be doing, whatever their purpose was, they measured data and discussed hypothesises tested by that data). They look at conclusions and don’t bother with looking to see if the conclusions are supported, or if there even is any disclosure of how they were arrived at (negative in both cases here).

Then when they get the three strikes laws proposed, the legislators/regulators support them because of the problems the reports detail and the solutions the reports promise. No thought at all is given to whether these papers are credible, nor even whether they’ve supported their claims or at the very least shown how they were arrived at (again, negative in this case).

The other issue is in court cases. In both trial and appeals cases these reports and the experts that parrot them help get bad law made. Especially when the opposing side can’t afford to get their own expert to explain why these reports are worthless, the suit who cited them for the plaintiff as evidence of various things will win.

Nothing much can be done, but they’re far from harmless. If people would learn to look at these things scientifically, we’d see the impact of them disappear. Unfortunatly, politicians don’t really care, and know nothing of logic or evidence-based decision making.