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p2pnet.net News View:- Michael Jay Rossi is angry because the major movie studios’ MPAA was able to take down his site for, claimed the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), offering a copyrighted movie.
But the movie in question hadn’t even been made.
Here’s tm on the subject.
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The entertainment media’s practices are not unlike the controversial gill nets used by fisherman – the huge dragnets which often cause widespread injury and death to a great many animals which are not the actual target of the nets, often causing immense environmental destruction for the small benefit of catching a few fish.
Similarly, the MPAA’s scorched-earth campaign that ensnares a lot of innocent people is simply brushed off as the necessary evil of enforcing copyright, a type of ‘collateral damage’ – a common offensive euphemism mouthed by military leaders when they recklessly slaughter huge numbers of civilians in their pursuit of a small military target.
Immunity and impunity
The DMCA specifically gives copyright holders blanket immunity from any and all damages caused by their own recklessness or negligence, no matter how extreme or blatant. This flies in the face of every principle of personal responsibility and common law.
For a drunk driver to have a "good faith belief" that his driving ability was not impaired after downing a sixpack, and another "good faith belief" that the traffic light was green when plowing through a busy intersection – a rather rational argument, indeed – does not absolve him of responsibility for his own reckless actions.
Yet this is exactly the same sort of situation in which the record and movie industries are able to execute with impunity – after all, they practically wrote their own loopholes into the DMCA law, giving themselves blanket immunity.
-tm
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hadn’t even been made – Rossi sues the MPAA, p2pnet, April 19, 2005
