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Originally Posted by DirtyWhiteBoy
Lets say Steve Lightspeed stole your car, then brought it to my house and gave it to me. Scratch that... he parks it at a local parking garage at the local mall where I then go and take your car. I'm now driving around town with your car, which I didn't technically steal directly from you, but it is now in my possession and I am using it. I know it's stolen but I don't care because you probably can't catch me.
1) I would still be legally held responsible and charged at least with receiving stolen property.
2) You would want to see me prosecuted right along with Steve, and I should be.
So the question becomes, how much are these videos actually worth? As someone who owns such a huge library of content, I'm sure you have a general idea how much each scene is worth over the course of time. It's a lot. In fact, over the course of time, just one scene will probably generate more money than what many cars are worth. So why is it OK to download them with no consequence if it's not OK for me to end up with your car after Steve stole it from you?
Everyone downloading the videos know they are stolen. They are equally as guilty as the uploader.  |
Sorry, but I do not agree that this is the same thing...
I will try to find a more comparable scenario... its not easy though:
Steve buys a DVD of my videos in a store, he then duplicates this DVD a billion times and puts them all in a big truck on the side of the road, with a sign on it saying "take one free".
You now come by and take a DVD and walk on.
1) In real life, you would most likely not be sued, I would have to check this a bit with my lawyers though to be honest but I think copyright law wise there is no way to sue you because you took the DVD.
2) I would not want to see you prosecuted, I would only want to see Steve prosecuted for doing this in the first place.
An example of why I said before this seems dangerous..
Imagine I now, because I actually managed to sue you and you had to pay me $500, make a billion copies of my DVDs, put them in a truck on the side of the road, put the sign up myself, and make a photo of everyone taking a DVD. I then sue them all a month later based on the photo because they took the DVD without paying...
And this would be much easier to do online than offline...
This is the only reason I find suing those people dangerous. I in general understand why people would like suing downloaders, I just think it opens up a possible can of worms...