1) I said link to the lawsuit, not to some media release. These are the guys that screwed up cracker/hacker, think that Oxygen explodes and a whole lot of other technical terms.
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Ned Scott Wrote:http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/03/bittorrent/
Linked from that article were some actual court documents:
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threat...enmind.pdf
Lawsuit Wrote:Defendants, without Plaintiff’s authorization or license, intentionally downloaded torrent files, purposefully loaded the torrent files into BitTorrent clients, entered a BitTorrent swarm particular to Plaintiff’s copyrighted creative works, and reproduced and distributed the same to numerous third parties.
Defendants’ conduct infringes upon Plaintiff’s exclusive rights of reproduction and distribution that are protected under the Copyright Act.
Lots of legalese about bit torrent protocol, blah blah. Not sued for downloading. Sued for uploading.
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threat...guns-1.pdf
Quote:The Defendants, and each of them, are believed to have engaged in the distribution of the Motion Picture via one or more peer to peer ("P2P") networks through the use of software which operates using the BitTorrent protocol.
Quote:http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20006314-261.html
This one was in the first line. "Producers of Oscar-winning film "The Hurt Locker" have made good on a promise to file copyright lawsuits against people
who illegally shared the movie via peer-to-peer networks."
Quote:http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6450_7-5081098-1.html
Quote:As I mentioned in a previous column, the RIAA is currently suing only users who share more than 1,000 songs.
Uploading, Sharing, Distributing. You could have ripped your own CD collection, put it on Kazaa and still been sued.
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Zero, Zip, Nul, Cero Lawsuits from people who have just downloaded files. Every single one has been a P2P network where you were making available or uploading at the same time: Kazaa, Bittorrent, etc.
IceFilms (MegaUpload), That of which we do not speak, FTP, HTTP, DCC, etc are all not P2P. Legality problems are for them to deal with.
As pointed out in the RIAA example. You could have ripped 100% of your own content. Had 100% of your own legally owned files. Had Kazaa automatically add them to it's "shared folder" during setup. Never downloaded a thing in your life and still been sued.