Steven Bogos said:
the days of going after individual users with massive fines are over.
Over before it began? because they have never managed to do this sucesfully, anywhere. in fact the reason that 27000 dollar grandma case is so famous is because its the only one in history where a regular user and not a regular uploader that got fined, worldwide.
alj said:
Well its not illegal is it ? Its copyright infringement. Or at least it should be.
copyright infringement is illegal. copyright infringement is a type of crime (like theft is a type of crime, but it is not equal), while it can be both legal and illegal and can fall under civil or criminal law. Now, its worth noting that in pretty much every civilized country, copyright infringement falls under civil law (which means you cant actually serve time for it, only fines, confiscation, ect) so its not like anything changed by "decriminalizing it".
alj said:
IF the letters tell you about a legal services where you can watch the movie or whatnot then what do they do if that movie tv show or game is not available in the UK? I think what they need to do is work with media companies to make more stuff available in the uk, just look at US Netflix VS UK Netflix.
the whole idea of "not available in X" is bullshit. internet has no countries. if you make an online service - make it available everywhere. segregating nonexistent countries is simple bullshit legallities. and the reason things like Netflix has different stuff in UK than US is actually because they cannot aquire permission from content owners to show outside of US, because god forbid somone actually has alternative to piracy (not that netflix is aleternative, what with its poor quality of video and all).
Skeleon said:
Good step, but... how will this actually work on an international level? A lot of content that's pirated in the UK is bound to be from other places like the USA, other parts of Europe, Japan...
internet has no countries, but that wasnt good enough for layers, so they created a server location principle. basically, the jurisdiction falls based on where the server is located. so even though im in europe, i have to make my posts good under US law when posting on escapist, because escapist is US based.
TKretts3 said:
... ... ... So the point of these notes is...?
the hope that some ignorant parent will see this and think his child is a criminal for "downloading dem minecrafts". basically scaremongering tactics.
