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Originally Posted by sortie
If we assume:
- A website is a broadcast just like tv
Then according to your scenario :
- I can high jack a cable tv broadcast
- Re-broadcast is for free on open airways.
- Tell you that I stole the brodacast
- You pay me to run your commericals on the broadcast
- but you don't think you will go down with me for raketeering?
I don't think this is the case.
The fact that you KNOW the content is stolen seems to be a problem.
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The people advertising on a stolen feed aren't going to get into trouble.
As I recall, racketeering is the business of obtaining money to provide a solution for a problem that the business itself causes. The advertiser who advertises on a stolen feed isn't the cause of the problem.
Moreover, if I didn't advertise on your stolen broadcast, your stolen broadcast would still exist.
And the Tube Sites aren't telling AFF that they are peddling in stolen content.
If you stole a cable broadcast and replaced the commercials, you wouldn't be engaging in copyright infringement either. This is because you are stealing the feed from the cable company, which doesn't own the copyrights to the broadcasts.
But you would be in trouble for signal theft.
And the television networks could also go after you for tortious business interference; you have replaced their advertisments, thereby affecting the relationship that they have with their customers.