Fiddy people thinking an IP address is a person
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Originally Posted by kane
I don't know about judicial review or what process they will be using. I just read the story and thought it was an interesting way to deal with it. Would you rather have it this way and defend yourself against possibly losing your ISP connection or would you rather it be a lawsuit asking for huge damages? To me the lawsuits are the hammer, this is more like the poke.
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I'd rather have neither. Neither work. When France introduced 3 strikes, piracy increased. Citation:
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/P...kes-Law-107320
I don't think it is right to have the MPAA demand your bandwidth is throttled because *they* say so.
I don't think having people that don't understand you can hack secure wifi connection in 2 hours or spoof an IP listening to appeals is good.
I think it's a huge waste of time and money and will achieve nothing.
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Originally Posted by kane
Really, and be 100% honest here, how often do you think individuals encrypted WiFi connections are forced hacked so that the hacker can use the WiFi to download pirated movies and music?
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There are no stats, I know I could hack yours in 2 hours though. So if I wanted to fuck your shit up, what's to stop me?
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Originally Posted by kane
We can go back to the way you want it. The old fashioned way. With this technique the RIAA will decide that you are infringing and without warning they will file a suit against you asking for potentially thousands of dollars in damages and now you get the pleasure of hiring a lawyer and defending yourself against this and if you do win the case then you get to hope that your lawyer will get his fees paid by them. Even if it all works out in your favor and win the case how many hours of your time and how much stress are you going go through dealing with that? If you truly are innocent wouldn't you rather have them notify you that they think you are downloading and you can find out what is going on and put an end to it before anything gets started?
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How about the ISPs tell the RIAA and MPAA to fuck off?
How about they realise this 'fight' against piracy has achieved the same as the war on drugs. Nothing. More drug use. More piracy.
Go after the uploaders, not the downloaders.