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Originally Posted by PR_Tom
Nobody has ever defined right-click, save-as as "content theft". What people define as content theft is someone putting up stolen content on their websites. It's the RE-DISTRIBUTION OF THE STOLEN CONTENT that defines what is commonly referred to as "content theft".
YES if you download a pirate copy of Doom then you are a thief. If you set up a collection of stolen software and run ads all over the fuck then you are OFFICIALLY a content fucking thief in the way everyone defines it.
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Well, you seem to be condoning content theft by the individual....
Did you know back in Spring in France a very controversial text was passed as law that gives copyright owners the power to cut off people's internet (well, thereabouts) for content theft - illegal downloads etc. It came into force a month or two ago. Google "loi HADOPI" (Haute Autorité pour la Diffusion des Oeuvres et la PrOtection des Droits sur Internet)
While it's always been illegal to download copyrighted material illegally, this law goes a step further to deliver the punishment that fits the crime - to cut off all internet access to that persons house/apt whatever.
Why it was/is controversial as a lot of onus falls on the ISP - you as a porn producer can poll the ISPs to cut a person off from the internet if you have proof. Whether it be some 13 yo in his parents basement, or some large tube site running a full cab in a DC.
Well, they have to fall under French juristiction though.