Is copyrights infringement terrorism?
 

This is by far the most pathetic e-mail I ever received as a complaint about a customer. According to Steve Easton of Apic, it is.



Copyright Theft and it?s Affects on YOU



America?s number 1 export is motion pictures. You may not have known that, but it?s fact. And millions of Americans and people from all over the world rely on this industry to live and feed their families. Location crews from every country depend on the Americans to employ them at some time.

?So what? you say? And in the same breath you are patriotic to the fallen heroes of 911. New York City, whose livelihood thrives on motion pictures, television, print , music , and all forms of entertainment infringed upon by INTERNET PIRACY.

The same paramedics, policemen, and firemen you hold dear, earn wages and more from overtime and detail while filmmakers employ NYC and thousands of it?s citizens. Restaurants, hotels, cab drivers, retailers and an endless list of beneficiaries from an industry struggling to survive because of INTERNET PIRACY.



In the first stages of the World Wide Web, we have watched Icon publishers go bankrupt because their circulation dropped to devastating lows. Why buy the magazine when all of its content is freely posted on the WWW? Scanned by INTERNET PIRATES.

From News to film to music to adult entertainment, the world suffers greatly from International crime online.



The digital environment has handed weapons of mass destruction to millions of irresponsible and ignorant consumers who cannot see past their monitors as to how they are destroying even their own lives. It?s a domino effect, and we will all suffer greatly from it.

As producers, photographers, actors, models, and all of the people behind the scenes in the media and entertainment world take a cut and possibly are forced out of business altogether, someone in the food chain above us will fall, leaving us hungry for the way things used to be.



The next time you ?right click? someone elses property, think about the baby at the end of the chain who may not be fed because his caregivers are no longer employed.

Sounds harsh? Sounds ridiculous? But you will remember reading this very soon. When your turn to lose comes along.



Steve Easton

APIC-Worldwide.com

Anything released by APIC loose all his credibility ... they go after people close their site then you show them the liscence and apologize ... Like Stiffler would say : fuck thoses fuckers

no.

Perfect 10 have the right idea.

You support Internet Piracy by making money from it then expect to go to court and defend yourselves. So far they knocked out AC and now taking on the might of Visa.

Will an organisation set itself up to do the same?

Take the AVS companies, the Sponsors, the TGP sites to court and sue them for making money from theft. I believe even Ebay have been successfully sued for profitting from the ale of copyrighted material.

Only time will tell if it will happen.

WTF? :1orglaugh

Charly read carefully what I am writting ...

The burden is on the copyright holder to notify that a party is infringing on it's copyrights. Once properly notified, if they don't take proper action, you are then complicit and become liable.

What does 9/11 fallen policemen and firefighters have to do with a proper notification of copyrights infridgement to one of my customers? This is the subject of my post, not who ultimately profits from infringement and what should be done to them...