View Single Post
Old 01-22-2012, 01:00 PM  
kane
Too lazy to set a custom title
 
kane's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: portland, OR
Posts: 20,684
Quote:
Originally Posted by gideongallery View Post
are you sure you want that

how are copyright holders going to success prove they actually lost sales, if people can simply claim they wouldn't have bought if they could get it for free (zero loss since we are excluding potential losses from the fair use side).

How about about all the increase sales from people sampling and then buying afterwards you would have to deduct all that extra revenue (since we are cancelling out life time potential growth on the fair use side).

copyright claims would also lose all statutory damages claims (since your capping damages to actual damages on the fair use side).

That a serious level of gimping your going to have to accept to truly be equal.
I just want fair. Fair is fair.

I don't want to see Sony use a SOPA type law to take down a little torrent site that is making its owner $50 per month only to then have the takedown be ruled wrong or "bogus" and have Sonly then lose potentially hundreds of millions in copyrights while the site owner lost a few hundred dollars.
kane is offline   Share thread on Digg Share thread on Twitter Share thread on Reddit Share thread on Facebook Reply With Quote