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CypherJF I gargle nitroglycerin

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Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:14 pm Post maybe stupid Post subject: |
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Cyan~Fire wrote: | Acutally, all filesharing services are legal. The legality depends on their use. |
A question had come up to me when I was giving a "seminar" er "speech" on the Internet and WWW. I basically told them, if i were to write a p2p application, I shouldn't be held liable for what the user's do with it.
As someone brought up the point, it'd be like sueing Xerox for allowing people to copy copyrighted material; etc. .. _________________ Performance is often the art of cheating carefully. - James Gosling |
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Mine GO BOOM Hunch Hunch What What

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Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 2:37 pm Post maybe stupid Post subject: |
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CypherJF wrote: | As someone brought up the point, it'd be like sueing Xerox for allowing people to copy copyrighted material; etc. .. |
They (MPAA/TV/I don't remember) tried to stop Sony from making a VCR, because they said it would be used for only illegal purposes. Try as they might, they failed, but not after large legal battles.
P2P will end up having the same fate, but the problem is that legal battles arn't cheap. Thus, the MPAA/RIAA can easily just threaten small P2P companies, and their choices are to shutdown and pay them $20,000 or to fight it and maybe win, but end up costing them $100,000+. |
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CypherJF I gargle nitroglycerin

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Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 12:18 pm Post maybe stupid Post subject: |
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Oh gosh... now the Supreme Court is going to hear it... |
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SuSE Me measures good

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Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 12:58 pm Post maybe stupid Post subject: |
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Ya Betamax pissed the movie people off bigtime, but you can't fuck with Sony.
Anyways, nowadays they make more cash on video rentals and sales than in-theater profits. Stupid hoes. |
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CypherJF I gargle nitroglycerin

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Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 1:32 pm Post maybe stupid Post subject: |
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I sure hope there are some trusty geeks out there advising the Justices that essentially visting a website is a P2P action... etc. :/ |
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Solo Ace Yeah, I'm in touch with reality...we correspond from time to time.

Age:37 Gender: Joined: Feb 06 2004 Posts: 2583 Location: The Netherlands Offline
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Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 3:12 pm Post maybe stupid Post subject: |
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Eh that reminds me to the classmate who got kicked out of my other school's "media center" (some room with like 30 computers and a bunch of books / desks) for "downloading" (well, that's what one of those jobless observers called it).
We complained to her and said that browsing to a webpage is downloading (partially) too.
Too bad she didn't understand and he still had to leave.  |
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Cyan~Fire I'll count you!

Age:37 Gender: Joined: Jul 14 2003 Posts: 4608 Location: A Dream Offline
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Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 5:09 pm Post maybe stupid Post subject: |
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Cyph wrote: | essentially visting a website is a P2P action |
No, a website is purely client-server. _________________ This help is informational only. No representation is made or warranty given as to its content. User assumes all risk of use. Cyan~Fire assumes no responsibility for any loss or delay resulting from such use.
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Purge Episode I > Eposide III Jar-Jar is kool

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Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 5:38 pm Post maybe stupid Post subject: |
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Solo Ace wrote: | [..]
Uh, you can't ask BitTorrent for an opinion, you can google for user opinions.
He asked for good virus protection software, not for a way to download one. |
Um, he also said that he downloads his other files off Shareaza, which is a P2P service I suggested him not to use. I didn't say get BitTorrent to download a Virus Scanner. |
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