Couple more jail terms being handed out in torrent cases i see
 

one for ten years...one for 22 months.

ouch...ten years :(

but stealing is stealing...it will be good, if we can get everyone to clean up.

links to articles?

http://torrentfreak.com/ninjavideo-f...prison-120106/

http://torrentfreak.com/us-authoriti...prison-120113/

http://torrentfreak.com/tvshack-admi...harges-110615/

http://blog.patentology.com.au/2012/...f-alleged.html

You could kill someone and get less of a sentence.

in Canada for sure

Which one was the 10 year one? I may have not read them all closely enough. Just interested :)

what about users i.e. any normal people that download the odd show is there any cases of jail time or fines

Poor girl. 2,000,000 daily views from 200,000 people and videos of her crying and talking about her indictment got 3000 views. :1orglaugh

it was the tvshack one.

i cant find it..perhaps the article was changed

ouch...lol

This one: http://blog.patentology.com.au/2012/...f-alleged.html

But it doesn't say that a 10 year sentence was handed out. Only that he may be facing one after a couple of things happen:

i have never understood why people dont think their video recordings through..


"i try to do the right thing" , " i dont understand this"

cmon now , you made money promoting stolen videos, you got caught, pretty simple. She should have had gideon ramble on with no point for 10 minutes , at least he would confuse most people.

tv shack wasn't torrent site. i think they embedded tube videos.

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What a dumb bitch.

Wow, that is pretty serious stuff!

she will be served :(

Hanna has a serious god complex and she netted about $200k in profit alone from her site. Not money she had to put back into it...PROFIT of $200k. They were the ones uploading the videos, and then profiting in over half a mill combined with all the ppl involved.

And if you read the TorrentFreak commenters according to them she has done nothing wrong. This is the voice of the pro-piracy crowd. They want to remove ALL copyrights (stripping authors of a right the Constitution gave them and the UN declared a human right), they see no problem with parasites who contribute nothing but consume everything making money for themselves off your hard work. It's really a disgusting form of dirty capitalism that uses populist socialism rhetoric to deprive people of their rights so that a parasitic class can become rich.

They manipulate the masses with some sort of free-speech issue, but ask yourself this. Do you believe producing music, movies, art, science, etc., is an expression of your free speech rights? Of course you do. Well the freedom of speech protects your right to give, OR TO NOT GIVE, your speech and no one else can give it for you. So if you think producing something is free speech, and you believe that 'sharing' someone else's works is an expression of YOUR speech, then you are violating someone else's freedom of speech by expressing their speech without their consent. It's like attributing a testimonial by them without their consent to something they don't want to endorse.

But by all means, keep listening to the freeloaders who so easily manipulate the masses.

Interesting for you to bring up the Constitution then try to claim free speech is the reason we even have copyright. As I've said before, it was put there to advance the sharing of information with a side effect of you being able to profit on your content and not the other way around.

"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."

Not only was it meant to be for a limited time (10 to 20 years at the time) but those that added that little tidbit most likely wouldn't have given two shits about porn being pirated. It was so people could keep writing books and making maps which help society as a whole.

True pirates are assholes and idiots but twisting the purpose of copyrights then claiming that they are doing the same is absolutely fucking hilarious.

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They should have time shifted. They need Gideon on their defense team.

Exactly where did I say that free speech is the reason we have copyright? You're the first person I've ever seen say that giving authors a limited economic monopoly on their works was just a 'side effect'. I would argue that it was an integral part. While neither of us was present at the signing of the Constitution, I would just have to disagree with you on that matter. Using the word "securing" in that section is also important...they aren't just saying "write some shit and if you make a buck...bonus!"...they are saying Congress has the power to SECURE that right for you, that's important to note. Even earlier historic stuff hinted at you being entitled to the fruits of what you produce. In 561 A.D. King Diarmaid of what is now Ireland said in what might be the earliest battle over what would become 'copyright' "to every cow, it's calf, to every book, it's child-book", he didn't say "just make more calves and STFU". Here much more recently Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor famously referred to copyright as "the engine of free expression"

I think your assessment that copyright was only meant for writing books and making maps is flawed. So if they didn't take into consideration things they couldn't have possibly imagined then those things don't get to enjoy that law? So by your reasoning then you would say that anything invented post-1776 shouldn't have copyright protection? Of course it didn't say "blu ray movies and hentai too".