The crime of ‘file-save as’
p2pnet.net News:- There’s a whole bright, new copyright sue ‘em all world waiting to be exploited by anyone and everyone who has an online presence, suggests Rafel Venegas.
Posting a Reader’s Write to Tainted cartel ‘pirate’ stats, “There’s one thing I fail to understand,” he says. “Why are the ‘file-save as’ stats never mentioned? This is where the big ‘criminal piracy’ (per the cartels, not me) ocurrs.”
He continues:
We all know our browsers have a “file-save as” function, the purpose being to copy entire web pages to our hard disks. Prior to using the “file-save as” function, we “criminals” never do any copyright status research for all that’s on the page we’re saving. We therefore save text, images, ads, logos, etc. For all I know and care, these objects can all be copyright “protected” and theoretically, can only be copied with the owner’s authorization. I’ve never asked for any such authorization. That’s why I’m a criminal “file-save as” copyright infringer and pirate, and just as guilty as a kid who downloads a song from the web.
Now, each time we use “file-save as” without the authorization of the copyright owners, using the cartel’s logic, we “criminals” don’t buy the products and two things occur:
1. There’s a money loss to the owners due to lost sales, and the money is lost to the economy; and,
2. Jobs are lost. I admit that by using the “file-save as” function I may not purchase as many books as I may otherwise have purchased, and that the book publishing industry could be devastated by my criminal behaviour.
Additionally, the saving of web pages for the purpose of creating a dossiers of politicians is a direct threat to politician’s survival.
Imagine how many people, mostly Democrats, have a dossier on Bush and at a moment’s notice can recall and show the news article where Bush proclaimed he won the war on Iraq? Or some of the Foley morality speeches?
I know for a fact thet “inducing others to infringe” is itself an infringement. The Supreme Court said so. I accept that I’ve been induced to use my browser’s “file-save as” function to become a “criminal”, mostly by Microsoft through their Internet Explorer. All my friends and relatives are also “file-save as criminals” who are destroying the economy of many countries by their frequent use of “file-save as”.
This raises some questions.
Is there any expert out there who can explain why the whosesale “file-save as” activity is tolerated and not even mentioned even though as a criminal piracy activity it is far more prevalent than song file sharing? (A wild guess, for each song shared, 100 web pages and pdf files are criminally “file-saved as”, not for later viewing, but for permanent dossier bulding.)
Is the FBI gathering information so that each time we use “file-save as” function they’re notified?
Is Bush planning to end the “file-save as” function on browsers because of it’s possible link to terrorism and/or damage to the economy and threat to politician’s career?
Has the Copyright Office given an opinion?
Do judges and cartel (RIAA, etc) copyright lawyers and executives respect the law by never using the “file-save as” finction?
Has any newpaper reporter ever asked the right questions of the right persons?
Is there any research on the subject?
What is Bill Gates opinion?
Should I turn myself in to the FBI for being a “file-save as” criminal or should I wait until they catch me?
Please note: If there is some humor in this post, it is not as humorous as the cartel ‘pirate’ stats.
Also See:
or not – Bully banned by UK stores, October 19, 2006
Reuters – Judge won’t dismiss “Grand Theft Auto” claims, October 26, 2006
New York Daily News – Grandmother pursues case against makers of `Grand Theft Auto, October 27, 2006
animated sex module – Rockstar sued by grandmother, Jul;y 28, 2005
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October 27th, 2006 at 10:03 pm
Please don’t give the riaa and the lawyers any new ideas
Please…..
October 27th, 2006 at 10:52 pm
My freedom out weights your right to make money. If you want to make money open a store. If you want to trample all over my freedom drop dead.
October 28th, 2006 at 4:56 pm
Some questions of my own.
I do most of my file copying at Starbucks.
Will Stabucks go down the drain with me if I get cought?
I save most of the news stories related to my profession in my laptop.
If the FBI takes away my laptop at the airport to check me for illegal activities or content, will the FBI notify the content owners of their findings?
If a content owner sue me, can I sue MS/Gates for inducing me to break the law?
Will the “file-save as” feature be DRM’d out of existense in future computers or operating systems? Or is it an unpluggable loophole?
October 30th, 2006 at 12:58 pm
This is the proof we need to beat the cartels !!!
Justice is supposed to be blinfolded. This article proves it.
So are the countries that blindly follow the disparate american copyright laws and legal system.
So are the judges who think that downloading songs are a crime, when in fact they themselves are probably equal in crime when they or their assistants use the “file-save as” function.
If we are all criminal, none of us are. The law is simply wrong.
October 30th, 2006 at 2:32 pm
From CNet story
“If a law was passed to forbid breathing, it could hardly cause a more universal criminalisation of the western world than the laws of music copyright.”
Read here:
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/digitalmusic/0,39029432,49284767,00.htm
October 30th, 2006 at 3:07 pm
in order to view a web page your computer automatically copies it to your hard drive… M$ is very guilty of contribuity infringement here…
October 30th, 2006 at 4:06 pm
Temporary files in the disk may be protected by the time-shifting Supreme Court decision that legalized videotaping for later viweing only, but not archiving.
What is not protected is the saving of files for earchiving purposes. That is illegal, so everyone who save web pages (who doesn’t) is a criminal.
As a member of a diabetic family, I save all news and scientific articles on the subject of diabetes. As a result I have even helped my family with otherwise unavailable medical information and the published medical advise. That makes me a criminal?