New Litigation Targets 20,000 BitTorrent-Using Downloaders

[Dimitrius]

Something some might want to be aware of:

New Litigation Targets 20,000 BitTorrent-Using Downloaders - Slashdot

Hugh Pickens writes "The Hollywood Reporter reports that more than 20,000 individual movie torrent downloaders have been sued in the past few weeks in Washington, DC, federal court for copyright infringement, and another lawsuit targeting 30,000 more torrent downloaders on five more films is...

slashdot.org

 

[a1pha]

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Thanks for this.

Good reminder -- if you're a bittorrent user it's best to stay on top of who cares, i.e. movie studios, record labels -- NOT software giants or publishers (yet).

That will likely change. Hopefully the studios will lose this fight, but I doubt it.

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K

 

[Jumper]

Ahh, seems like the powers-that-be are getting more upset. Good. Lucky for swim that he runs all his torrents encrypted through multiple proxies, ha ha. Fuck the MPAA and RIAA. Swim PAYS for his bandwidth, therefore he has the right to download whatever the hell is made available to him online. End of fucking story.

 

[a1pha]

^^ Amen.

How does one copyright a series of 1's and 0's? Seems silly to me.

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K

 

[Dimitrius]

"IsoHunt told to pull .torrent files offline, likely to close"

IsoHunt told to pull .torrent files offline, likely to close

It could be the end of the line for IsoHunt, as a federal judge has asked …

arstechnica.com

 

[Infundibulum]

^^ Amen.

How does one copyright a series of 1's and 0's?

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K

Exactly as he copyrights a series of A's, T's, G's and C's. And in the latter case is basically copyrighting Natural Life itself.

 

[SnozzleBerry]

^^ Amen.

How does one copyright a series of 1's and 0's?

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K

Exactly as he copyrights a series of A's, T's, G's and C's. And in the latter case is basically copyrighting Natural Life itself.

Arrrgh, don't even get me started on genetic patenting. That makes me angry as all hell, I mean really???!?? How the hell can a human being or corporation patent a gene? Who the fuck created genes? Not some human, that's for sure. There was recently a great victory in this arena that could potentially overturn a lot of the awful rulings that seem to have dominated this issue in the past.

Here's a link: Court Says Company Can't Patent Breast Cancer Gene

SB