Comments on: U.S. Govt: Harsh Punishments Needed to Deter File-Sharers

By: Copyright Troll Suffers Website Attacks | 420Files

[...] out-of-pocket. Can’t see what problem anyone would have with that. I mean, it’s not like they shared a film or anything serious like [...]

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[...] out-of-pocket. Can’t see what problem anyone would have with that. I mean, it’s not like they shared a film or anything serious like [...]

By: Jhon Deo

Jhon Deo — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:58:00 +0000

So if the file sharer settled they would have only had to pay $285.71 per song? What a deal!!!

By: Jhon Deo

Jhon Deo — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:55:00 +0000

Exactly. Infringement for commercial purposes [making a profit], and infringement for personal use should be separate categories.

Personally I think copyright infringement for personal use should be legal. Sharing for personal use has been the defacto standard for nearly the past 50 years because enforcing copyright monopolies was impossible to do with the technology of the time. Only just recently have the media producers been able to go directly after consumers.

Despite that piracy has gone up, media producers keep making record profits year after year. Evidence that legitimate media services, and pirated media are complementary goods not substitutes.

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U.S. Govt: Harsh Punishments Needed to Deter File-Sharers - Soicalpost — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 06:04:12 +0000

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By: fixed

fixed — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:58:00 +0000

World Population: Harsh Punishments Needed to Deter U.S. Govt

Corrected that for you, TF

By: Scary_Devil_Monastery

Scary_Devil_Monastery — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:12:00 +0000

No, but what bobmail has apparently missed is that quite often my arguments have been paraphrasing Gandhi, MLK and Mandela.

To which bobmail has answered with derision and scorn, usually responding something to the effect that it would take childish, immature, ill-willing or bigoted people to come up with such slogans.

I also like to quote einstein and plato. Bobmail hasn’t caught on there, either.

By: Scary_Devil_Monastery

Scary_Devil_Monastery — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:06:00 +0000

And applying bobmail’s logic, if you run 5 mph past 60 on the highway, the ticket you should be handed is for the assumption that you WERE going 3k mph over the limit.

Someone has to take the rap for all those speeding bastards, after all. Might as well be the one who actually got caught.

That used to be “Anon”-logic. Now, apparently, much like the moniker of “Baghdad Bob”, it belongs to bobmail.

By: DoctorT

DoctorT — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:19:00 +0000

Ha! I love that it’s “potential” damages now!
Using that logic you could get a speeding ticket for “potentially” going 3000 over the limit.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 17:18:00 +0000

If only THAT were true!

Warrantless wiretapping anyone? Great result came from that! [