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Originally Posted by gideongallery
ah got
your a lying scum bag doing your lying scum bag thing again.
can't make your argument with fact so you just make shit up.
btw
i find it funny that the scum bag with the double standard who argued that pirates should be punished the first time they "mistakenly" infringe but argue that it unreasonable to take away the copyright from copyright holders who "mistakenly" violate fair use
is accusing me having a double standard.
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This is my position...just to be clear.
If a company (say for this example Sony) accidentally wrongly sues someone for copyright violation then I feel those who were wrongly sued are due their court costs and an amount of money that is reasonable for "pain and suffering." Now if Sony carried out gross misconduct and they went after people they knew likely were not guilty simply to scare them into settling then those people should be allowed to counter sue and should be awarded whatever damages the jury sees as fit. But Sony should not have to make its property public domain.
If a site owner puts something up that they know is infringing, they should be sued and a jury should decide what the punishment is. DMCA laws protect them from "accidentally" infringing because they create a legal pathway for copyright holders to have their content removed from the site. If that site doesn't remove it after DMCA (or in my opinion they continue to let it be posted again and again after being DMCA'd) they should be sued.
If they are grossly negligent and post things that they know people do not have the rights to download, they should be forced to stop operating until the case is resolved. That is how it works in the real world. If the police think I am using my car to traffic drugs, they will impound the car. If I'm found innocent I get the car back.
You can go to The Pirate Bay and do a search for Twilight Breaking Dawn and there are many different versions of it available for you to download at will. This is a movie that is only available in theaters. the only way for you to legally view it is to buy a ticket so everyone who is downloading that movie (or seeding it) is violating copyright and the site knows this and still allows it to happen. If the producers of that movie filed suit the site should be shut down until , at the very least, a hearing can be held to determine if the site owners were negligent.