Inq. Story
Story itself is pretty dull, but 2nd paragraph made /me/ LOL.
/Edit: I previously used the word 'be' to detect Korean spies.
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zacherynuk @echo off, Thu 4 Dec 2008, 11:02,
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that website makes me cringe!
urgh...
also (insert first initial(s) of your country here)FACT, what cunts.
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i think its great
letting, um, how you say...specials?...yeh specials! write on the interet.
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awsm! namaste bitches, Thu 4 Dec 2008, 11:24,
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gah
terrible writing.
it's like babelfish web translate and "the Sun" got together.
the article itself, while taken as fact states that they face a maximum 66K fine, but were making 10,000 a month for some months and had 55K sitting in a bank account.
Seems to me that it's unlikely they hadn't spent a single penny in all the time and so were making more than 10K a month or had been operating for quite some time, so the fine isn't much of a deterrent.
admittedly they have frozen that 55k, so perhaps some top advice if you're planning on operating a tracker site:
Operate two, when you get busted, use the money from the other one to pay your fine.
of course jail time sucks.
related topic:
I still don't see how you can sue/prosecute someone for having a website that enables users to share files with each other, even if it is used for piracy.
How come google or IRC don't get sued?
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KittyWaste lives at Sleepingplanet.com, Thu 4 Dec 2008, 12:42,
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google enables piracy but it's not its reason for existing
if you somehow (and there isn't an obvious easy way without disrupting legitimate use) were able to stop google indexing anything remotely piratey then billions of people would still continue to use google.
If you stopped the average p2p site from tracking pirated content then what would be left? A few linux distributions, some homemade albums and sod all traffic.
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rob, Thu 4 Dec 2008, 13:09,
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you make a good point
however i would like to propose a counter argument:
"piracy shouldn't be illegal because i don't want it to be illegal"
/redVsBlue
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KittyWaste lives at Sleepingplanet.com, Thu 4 Dec 2008, 21:43,
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but where do you draw the line?
I agree with you but from a legal stand point one would have to decide at what percentage a bittorrent site becomes illegal.
Sure100% ok
but like you said, they do have home made albums and linux stuff etc.
90%
80% how do you decide?
And what if your site has a shitload of free torrents that no one uses and one really really really popular pirate torrent...
and for how long? what if your site is legit for 12 months then some naughty users start uploading pirated films, should you prosecute straight away?
I think realistically the law has to be applied as it is now, to the individual person who is doing the uploading. While this is difficult i think "becasue it's too hard" is not a good enough reason to leave the users and go after the trackers.
my two pence. Questions weren't aimed at you Rob, just out loud.
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KittyWaste lives at Sleepingplanet.com, Thu 4 Dec 2008, 21:50,
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