U.S. P2P on Lockdown

[Quall999]

The News

Basically, you can be charged for hosting any kind of copyrighted p2p media on the net. No loopholes, no way around it. The fines are not light either. The bill is expected to pass.

[Neipas02]

Sweet

[acal3000]

That not going to stop piracy

[DABhand]

So you say now until your in the slammer for 3 yrs


"Oh why did I share that movie"

"Dont worry babe, ill see you in the shower to cheer you up" - Big Fat Inmate



hehehe


I think that thought alone would scare people :P

[Quall999]

It may not stop piracy, especially since the US is not the only people who file share. However, it should scare a lot of people from doing it.

[Neipas02]

Those first few people are gonna get the book thrown at them in a big way.. They're going to make examples of them for sure..
Should be soon enough.

[Luciel]

i agree tottally with this as long as they dont go after a 12 year old girl for download a track of her fav band like the RAA (is that how there called?) are doing, i think thats just tottally wrong.

[Quall999]

Bah, I can't believe they did that. They wanted to make an example

[Luciel]

an example, fine, BUT OF A KID! jeeze... thats just wrong.

[Neipas02]

Yea.. Actually it was more an example of her parents.. I think it was an attempt to make parents monitor what their children are doing online.. I'm sure they paid out the yang for that.

Does anyone know if it was an actual felony charge?.. If thats the case that poor little girl is screwed the rest of her life.. Having to try to get jobs and always noting her felony conviction on the application.. Reguardless of the crime most employers just trash the app.

Oh and Luc. It's RIAA. (recording industry artists of amercia) I believe.. I don't really care..

So from reading the article it looks like they're more concerned about the piracy of pre-released movies.. Which is getting more and more common these days.. Also I wonder if it is also having focus on movies that haven't been released on DVD yet..

They'd better not lock anyone up for having a copy of freaking Ernest Goes To Camp or something like that..

[Warlock]

I can understand them making a example of the guy selling downloaded, bootleged cd's at a flea market or something but busting some kid like Luciel mentioned is just sad. In my eyes it makes the RIAA or whatever the hell they call themselfs look bad.

[Luciel]

i agree tottally warlock

[EMPiRE]

By sueing kids they achieve exaclty what they want as sueing someone who is making money on selling music is not that interesting and does not affect the common people

The RIAA & MPAA are both legal entities and are allowed to do these things by law (DMCA/FECA)... and if they continue sueing people, in the end it will make people more aware that they should not "upload/share" files and for better p2p networks to be developed, with better privacy protection (ip forgery/hiding)

The bad thing is that their tactics are now "copied" by other countries (UK, SE, DE, NL) now, making their action even more "legit". So it would be good if the RIAA/MPAA are stopped somehow, but that would mean cancelation of the DMCA/EUCD and this will never happen which the current governments...

The US is more and more becoming a Big Brother society where everybody is being monitored and sued when they find someting on you!

[DABhand]

For the girl subject.

She was caught sharing 100k+ mp3's. Or was it 200k+.

I cant remember now, at the time they didnt know if she was a she or a child or whatever.

End of the day she was sharing music illegally and her parents who became her legal representitives got fined heavily.

$250k I think it was.

[Quall999]

Yah, it was really high. Didn't the Artist go after her? I can't remember. They wanted to show that anyone who does it will get in trouble.