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Old 06-01-2010, 06:06 PM  
gideongallery
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Originally Posted by kane View Post
In this case they are going after the people that actually downloaded the movie, not the site they downloaded it from.

Fighting the sites is a much bigger endeavor because of DMCA and other rules/laws. There are many groups targeting the sites themselves, but these guys go after the individual downloaders which are probably a lot easier to get settlements out of.
maybe because that the point of the law the users who don't have a fair use right are the ones who are actually guilty of doing something wrong

the service providers are simple providing an infrastructure that CAN be abused to infringe.
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