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Originally Posted by halfpint
Fighting piracy yes I aggree with, but this method has nothing to do with fighting piracy and all to do with making money so on this method I do not agree with..
Why ?
Cause it has been tried over here in the UK with porn and mainstream a few years ago and it ended up being one disaster both for the companys and the law companys involved with the letter sending. Whether it ends the same over in the US remains to be seen and only time will tell.
I think this will only hurt porn companys even further with the surfers loosing more confidence and not trusting porn companys. A lot of people allready think we are the scum of the earth and porn should not be allowed on the net.
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fact is this war is going to result in a backlash that will make it even harder to protect your content
hiring a divorce lawyer to do your copyright work, is the stupidest move these guys could do. Divorce lawyers don't understand fair use, international privacy rights, etc
all it would take is one person fighting this based on those laws and the house of cards would not only colapse but the another precedent will be set to hide behind.
It exactly like the teen revenue, unfair business practices arguement that i predicted would fail. because of their fuck up with that case, if you want to now make an unfair business practices complaint, you now have to prove that actions are not covered by fair use. In other words the DMCA safe harbor has basically been extended to unfair buessiness practices suits too.
the settlements of other people are a defence given the method in which bit torrent works (both the seeding and the downloading of the previous settling people is now authorized by the copyright holder)
your setting up a really bad precedent for the legitimate fights and that just stupid.