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Old 06-19-2009, 12:57 PM
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Default Music file sharing case: Retrial ended up worse.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,527284,00.html
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Now they just need to do this a few hundred million more times and then we finally can all be free of these dastardly, society destroying menaces.



But seriously, this is a perfect example of how today's copyright laws are messed up.
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Old 06-19-2009, 03:45 PM
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Now they just need to do this a few hundred million more times and then we finally can all be free of these dastardly, society destroying menaces.



But seriously, this is a perfect example of how today's copyright laws are messed up.

*nod* that there was a retrial and it ended up worse is almost unheard of lol
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Hmm I live in this state.

*starts to read more then the headline*
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http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2....ideas_pr.html

That was written in Mar 1994. It's a long read, but it's worth it.

It's funny and sad how it is exactly relevant even today.

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To the extent that law and established social practice exists in this area, they are already in dangerous disagreement. The laws regarding unlicensed reproduction of commercial software are clear and stern...and rarely observed. Software piracy laws are so practically unenforceable and breaking them has become so socially acceptable that only a thin minority appears compelled, either by fear or conscience, to obey them. When I give speeches on this subject, I always ask how many people in the audience can honestly claim to have no unauthorized software on their hard disks. I've never seen more than 10 percent of the hands go up.

Whenever there is such profound divergence between law and social practice, it is not society that adapts. Against the swift tide of custom, the software publishers' current practice of hanging a few visible scapegoats is so obviously capricious as to only further diminish respect for the law.
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I was just waiting to get off of work to post about this to be honest >.>'

However, do you people think it is fair for her to be charged over 1 million dollars for the equivalent of one or two CDs (24 tracks)?

From Logwad's link, very interesting: "Humans have not inhabited cyberspace long enough or in sufficient diversity to have developed a Social Contract which conforms to the strange new conditions of that world. Laws developed prior to consensus usually favor the already established few who can get them passed and not society as a whole. "
I found that quote to be exactly what I was trying to say in the earlier post bout Pirate Bay.

An interesting tie-in not as lengthy as Logwad but just as thought provoking dealing with "intellectual property" and what is wrong with it:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html

And if no one followed the link I posted last time a topic about this came up I'll post it again >.>

http://www.stealthisfilm.com/Part2/download.php
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