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Originally Posted by stickyfingerz
And for the record I am of course anti piracy, and one of the ones fully for our industry taking steps to stop the overt downloading of our content and spreading thereof. ;) but I think most already know that hehe. But ya its very simple to jump on someone elses connection and do illegal downloading, uploading, and other acts. Even with wep enabled its a simple thing to crack that with a linux distro disc that runs off the cd or dvd drive, crack wep, log into your main os and jump on a "secure" connection. So I agree ip shouldn't be allowed to be used in prosecuting. Would have to tie it to the actual computer used and its mac id otherwise they can't prove anything beyond a shadow of a doubt.
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hense my statement about it being about fucking time
if you look at the number of people who have lost their homes, paid out 1,000 in fines based solely on that flimsy level of evidence it make me sick.
I have never supported copyright infringment, i however don't support taking away fair use, or procecuting people who are intermediaries for a technology that can be both used for a legitimate fair use purpose and an infringing one as well (like the vcr, and bit torrent)
like i have said for the last 2 years
leave the seeders alone
leave the tracker alone
leave the leachers who have a fair use right to the content alone
go after the leachers who don't have a fair use right to the content.