Comments on: Hollywood propaganda flics http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12660 p2pnet.net - reader powered Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:30:38 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: legal advise http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12660/comment-page-1#comment-140358 legal advise Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:39:42 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12660#comment-140358 Also the dvd could not be sold in areas where the lawyer that gives the legal advise is not licensed to practise. For example, a dvd with advise by a California licensed lawyer should not be sold in Canada (or even Texas?), only in California. Clearly if a California licensed lawyer gets someone from Canada, a Canadian, into trouble because of wrong legal advise, where will the Canadian complain? The Canada Bar Association? No kidding. Also the dvd could not be sold in areas where the lawyer that gives the legal advise is not licensed to practise.

For example, a dvd with advise by a California licensed lawyer should not be sold in Canada (or even Texas?), only in California.

Clearly if a California licensed lawyer gets someone from Canada, a Canadian, into trouble because of wrong legal advise, where will the Canadian complain? The Canada Bar Association? No kidding.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12660/comment-page-1#comment-140219 Reader's Write Wed, 04 Jul 2007 14:59:08 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12660#comment-140219 I too watch movies with "buying pirated dvd is a crime" and "copying is stealing" type of messages. But I have another take. Such messages are in fact legal advise and answer the questions one would ask a lawyer, and the answers are wrong. Buying a pirated dvd is surely not a crime. Making the pirate dvd and then selling it is a crime. The customer of such a dvd or of a fake watch or a fake purse is not the criminal. The message that copying a dvd is a crime is absurd, as there are many (legal) reasons why someone may want to copy a dvd. There are also dvd films that are in fact in the public domain and there are countries where the dvds may wind up that have different rules that may not even be understood. The opinion here is that published legal advise should only be given by lawyers who put their name and license number on the document, meaning tat they accept reposnsibility for the advise they give. MOVIE STUDIOS ARE NOT LAWYERS. I too watch movies with “buying pirated dvd is a crime” and “copying is stealing” type of messages.

But I have another take.

Such messages are in fact legal advise and answer the questions one would ask a lawyer, and the answers are wrong.

Buying a pirated dvd is surely not a crime. Making the pirate dvd and then selling it is a crime. The customer of such a dvd or of a fake watch or a fake purse is not the criminal.

The message that copying a dvd is a crime is absurd, as there are many (legal) reasons why someone may want to copy a dvd. There are also dvd films that are in fact in the public domain and there are countries where the dvds may wind up that have different rules that may not even be understood.

The opinion here is that published legal advise should only be given by lawyers who put their name and license number on the document, meaning tat they accept reposnsibility for the advise they give. MOVIE STUDIOS ARE NOT LAWYERS.

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