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Originally Posted by Robbie
It was stated above that they made 1.2 million a year. That's WAY less than we made on our TGP's each year. And trust me, 1.2 million a year sounds good...but it ain't a lot of money. Especially when you have 3 or 4 partners to divide up whatever is left after paying the bills.
So if their "dreams" are to be lower middle class and in debt for big fines imposed (over 3 million so far) and having their freedom taken away for a year and with a business model that can't survive...then yeah, they are living their dreams.
Smart thing to do would be to make TBP legit NOW while it has a ton of traffic and sell it for an astronomical fee to a large company looking to up it's internet presence.
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robbie they were convicted base on the "unrefuted" claim that linking to copyright material from a bbs was a relevant example that infered liablity. The problem was that this point was brought up in the closing arguements of the procecution and not in the testimony where it could be refuted.
Given the fact that unlike a link to a complete working copy of the file (ala bbs example) is not the same thing as point to a torrent file which is a session where no complete copy is transmitted (only pieces) will makes a huge difference.
this is the one case that needs to be knocked down to make torrents just as legal as a vcr WORLD WIDE. Once that precedent is gone, there is no criminal act and therefore no intent to commit a criminal act.