Comments on: Online DVD seller jailed

By: sk8rpro

sk8rpro — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:23:21 +0000

To Reader’s Write #1:

File sharing copyrighted works, like it or not, is still a crime for the U.S. Whether you sell it or distribute it for free is still considered copyright infringement, except selling is a bigger offense.

Whether it should or should not be the case is irrelevant because it’s the law. It’s just like illegal immigrants saying that crossing the border and living there should be legal, when it’s further from the truth.

However, if you want to do something about it, petition for there to be changes to the law from the DMCA (Digiatal Millennium Copyright Act) so the law would be more lenient towards free file-sharing. The trick is getting the Congressmen and Senators to agree.

By: WhatDifference

WhatDifference — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 03:27:30 +0000

Why is it that an american citizen can not sell pirated software.
BUT over in CHINA, they USE pirated SOFTWARE to run most of there business.

We throw money at CHINA and they become richer and richer and use stolen technology and pirated software, that american companies have to pay for.

Read the book China Inc. And see america is going down unless there is a change.

http://www.amazon.com/China-Inc-Superpower-Challenges-America/dp/0743257359/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-9143329-6940012?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1186543597&sr=8-1

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:18:53 +0000

TPB does not make the money off of pirated works anymore then google does with their search feature that lets you search for .torrent files for example.
That TPB’s searching for .torrent files is better then the way google provides this feature, and that because of that more people visit TPB then google for that task is not TPB’s fault, nor does that fact constitutes “profiting from piracy”.

You don’t have to pay to visit TPB or use their infrastructure, do you?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:57:05 +0000

p2p makes a lot of money off of pirated works. Look at the pirate bay. probably worth 10 million dollars now.

MOST P2P sites are RUN for money, these days.

Keep it free. that’s the rule

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:29:12 +0000

Selling software that you don’t own is a crime…and it SHOULD be a crime.

But it is STILL different from p2p. There is no selling in p2p…and if there IS, then it is NOT p2p.