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Originally Posted by stocktrader23
Dude, you are pulling this shit out of your ass. No, you are not responsible for it in the same way. For starters, these people are being sued for SHARING files, nobody is getting sued for downloading them.
You can not sue someone and win for doing something without proving that they actually did it. This is why NOBODY has been found guilty yet.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20060727/1131227.shtml |
Your wrong. People are being sued by the music industry because they downloaded music illegally from a copy filing site, which was traced back to them using their IP. Most of them just settled out of court.
http://news.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/1...sharing-music/
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,96797,00.html
This article claims they've sued twenty-six thousand people for uploading, downloading, and otherwise sharing music online:
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/d...goes_to_court/
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/274415
I understand what your saying. If you trace something back to my IP address it doesn't mean that I physically did something - it means someone at my house did. But to sue someone, you don't have fucking prove anything. Your suing someone, not proving innocence or guilt. Just like a photo traffic ticket - They trace the car to owner via the license plate, and thus send the ticket to the owner of the car.
Sorry, the music industry is going after people. The movie industry is going to start to. Fuck, the gaming industry is pissed off that people can download their game before it hits store shelves. And the porn industry will start suing people too.