FTC Shuts Down "Criminal" ISP
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The first paragraph had me convinced that they had banned a certain we/b/site.
In all fairness, this is a nice sentiment but its like pissing into the sea, it probably wont make a spot of difference until they can locate and ban every offending site on the net.
In all fairness, this is a nice sentiment but its like pissing into the sea, it probably wont make a spot of difference until they can locate and ban every offending site on the net.
The main difference between intellectual property piracy and child pornography is that while pirating is wrong, you still might own that stuff and it's 100% legal to download another copy be it for backups or to burn copies for each day of the week because you have already purchased the license from the maker, whereas with child pornography, it's always wrong. ALWAYS. That's why pirating is a civil matter and child porn is a criminal matter. The two hold very different punishments, and rightfully so. The need to take down people with volalitle files such as child porn is far greater than finding a 12 year old girl for downloading the Jonas Brothers album.KeyMaster45 said:
Of course it's a fucking baby, it's CP, whatelse is going to be there. Like I said though, I haven't been to 4chan in a while, so the mods may have changed.bodyklok said:
Also, what's an understatement, that the mods are inconsistent or that they are posting CP.
Eh *mentions the story of the one starfish* but no doubt it is a big mess. They should gun for the porn first *snicker* see how far they go in doing that.DeadlyYellow said:
Wonder how long it will take for anti-piracy people to pick up on this and start their next propaganda step - "downloading games is [a cyber crime,] like child pornography" (with the part in square brackets conveniently disappearing over time).
The only problem is, in the case of games, your backup copy is 100% useless unless you break the law first by circumventing the copy protection (any no-cd crack, etc.).
According to http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=356, "The NET Act made copyright infringement itself a federal criminal offense, regardless of whether you circumvent copy-protection technology or whether you derive any commercial benefit or monetary gain. Thus, just making a copy of a copyrighted work for a friend now makes you subject to up to five years in prison and/or up to $250,000 in fines." Also, the child pornography laws are almost always so vaguely worded that anyone can get thrown in jail just for looking at the Wikipedia page for Scorpion's album "Virgin killer" (keep in mind that any picture that you look at on the web is automatically downloaded on your computer, in the browsers cache, instatly making you legally in posession of it).
As stated, I wouldn't be in the least surprised if the copyright holders started saying it's the same thing. They've already convinced everyone that copyright infringment it is the same stealing, they've also made claims that it supports drug trade and other organized crime, and is a type of cyber terrorism that robs them of billions of dollars every year.