UK Internet Pirate Goes to Jail for Long Time
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I think the difference is google isn't designed to do that like this website was which is why it can't be shut down but they are still getting lots of heat over pirate websites appearing in searches.Zer0Saber said:
Once again we see a government more concerned with protecting big companies then normal people.
Judge: I could be reasonable but my political party is aligned with the guy whose toes you stepped on so ROT IN JAIL!
Sometimes its easy to see why people hate their governments.
Judge: I could be reasonable but my political party is aligned with the guy whose toes you stepped on so ROT IN JAIL!
Sometimes its easy to see why people hate their governments.
I think it's time for the MPAA to start going after google now.Sober Thal said:
Honeslty, ignoring the stories being told from Vickerman about the shadiness of FACT spying on him, and the court case seeming like it was set up unfairly, and how the police weren't involved for the majority of the investigation...
This is just BS. You can find more links to illegal downloads using a common search engine than you could on STC...
Four years in jail? Really? If even half of what Vickerman is saying on his site is true then it just makes it even worse.
I actually support the courts here, he was making money from a site promoting piracy, if he hadn't have been then he should have been let off with a caution.
Absolutely disgusting. I have just read the entire story on FACT ltd on surfthechannel.com. I honestly cannot believe this stuff goes on.
Reread the second paragraph. He got ten years for posting links to youtube videos, not to torrent sites. They could send the administrators of Tvtropes and this site to prison for the same thing.Sober Thal said:
Piracy is wrong, but hamhanded prosecution of IP laws is also wrong, and that's what's happening here.
Do you really think it's fair to send a person to jail for 10 years for posting links to youtube videos? I think there's a bigger need to lock you up than him; he's not advocating destruction of people's lives over trivial things, you are.
So if he told bank robbers where you could buy illegal firearms that would be ok? He is crook plain and simple and he has rightly gone to jail.Kordie said:
Customers don't matter, you can't tell if your selling a gun to a mass murderer or a hunter. Second, if you asked me where to buy a gun and I said here is a list of 17 places that sell the gun you want including bills black market ally warehouse, then it is up to you the consumer to choose what store to go to. He pointed people to both legitimate and illegitimate sources, which is nothing a google search won't do already.albino boo said:
Why are you using something far worse that he didn't do as justification for this? He maybe deserves a small fine. He doesn't deserve jail. Hell, most people here have posted links to youtube videos that would probably be considered IP infringement. Do we deserve jailtime?albino boo said:
People be bloodthirsty and vindictive in this thread. Makes me worried about the future. I get the feeling that if people like you get their way, there will come a day where not committing severely punishable offenses will actually be hard.
". For those that are unaware FACT Ltd is the UK regional office of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)". So really Google and Youtube should totally be liable, but they aren't because money talks.Agow95 said:
Quote from what it now says on SurftheChannel.
I felt it ever since the Tories got a majority in the commons on election night.alexbuckenham said:
And here we are now. In a country where the people are ants, willing to be stepped on because of peer preasure and right wing politics. Another reason why I am considering moving to Canada when I can afford it.
CAPTCHA: Heartache.
How my heartaches at the fact our government is being twisted by the big businesses.