Torrent Site Mininova Removes Pirated Materials

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[citation][nom]mgilbert[/nom]Twist it and spin it all you want. Obtaining copyrighted material without paying for it is stealing - period. They may even deserve to have their copyrighted stuff stolen - but it is still stealing. If you don't like the price of something, you have the right NOT to buy it, but you do not have the right to steal it. If you think a car dealer wants too much for a car, do you have the right to steal the car???Whine and spin all you want. P2P is going to die. ISPs are now required by law to give up your identity if you are sharing copyrighted material online. A "three strikes" law is in the process of becoming law - get caught sharing copyrighted material three times, and you lose your internet for life.Don't like that? That's tough. They ARE going to stop P2P, and they're going to get away with it.[/citation]



Unlike you coward I'd fight them hook, tooth, and nail, and if need be I'd run for an office to change law if it started twisting into some kind of hell hole like that rather than give up. Why don't you fight for your rights and stop being such a fucking pussy?

 

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Copyright infringement is not theft.

[citation][nom]United States Supreme Court[/nom]interference with copyright does not easily equate with theft, conversion, or fraud. The Copyright Act even employs a separate term of art to define one who misappropriates a copyright: ... 'an infringer of the copyright.' ...

The infringer invades a statutorily defined province guaranteed to the copyright holder alone. But he does not assume physical control over the copyright; nor does he wholly deprive its owner of its use. While one may colloquially link infringement with some general notion of wrongful appropriation, infringement plainly implicates a more complex set of property interests than does run-of-the-mill theft, conversion, or fraud.
—Dowling v. United States, 473 U.S. 207, pp. 217–218[/citation]

 

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damn the judge....asshole

 

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Just like to throw in my two cents on how I think it's funny that someone is breaking the law by giving a copy of a game away for free, but it's perfectly legal for Blockbuster/Gamestop to *profit* from from passing a game through one set of hands at a time. Either way the developers aren't getting any money from it. (Well, I suppose you could count that first purchase when the game was still new.) Guess I'm trying to say: why aren't we discussing better licensing laws or tax breaks for game developers (learn something from Montreal damnit!) instead of arguing about how bad piracy is. In the end I would argue it's better for the industry if you pirate 5 games a buy a new copy of the one you liked best, rather than rent or buy it used. (Oops, I think I got off track 0.o)

 

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