Indians ISPs threatened
p2p news / p2pnet: The Big Four record label cartel’s IMI (Indian Music Industry ) is threatening more than 600 web sites and 30 Indian ISPs, saying it may sue them.
"An IMI letter, a copy of which is with Business Standard, has accused the websites of ‘intentional copyright violation’ and the Internet service providers of ‘facilitating the commission of such serious offences’," says the Business Standard.
IMI spokesman Savio D’Souza said responses were "encouraging but not conclusive" says the story.
"The Indian Music Industry may consider legal action …"
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January 13th, 2006 at 8:17 am
Right. And as soon as bigbiz realises all their outsourced call centre contractor’s employees are gonna go to jail this will die very quietly. It’s not like many other ppl in india could afford both a pc and net access is it?
January 13th, 2006 at 12:26 pm
This is simple, to show how ridicullous the downlading issue is and how not in touch with reality, the cartels are.
The cartels have decided for the entire humanity that copying digital files is infringement and criminal. This is their theory.
Based on the cartel’s theory, any user of the Internet is a criminal as soon as the SAVE option of a browser is used while browsing a non Creative Commons site, meanng almost all web sites. Of course to save anything, it is downloaded first.
In the meantime, 100 percent of the pupulation, now criminals, have no idea how illegal and criminal the use of a computer can be, per the theory of the cartels.
In the meantime, no government has made a study to see what percent of users are criminal (per the cartel theories). Surely the study, if made, would give us a figure of 100 percent or close to it. This is because everyone sooner or later saves something from a web page that has a copyright owner who has not specifically authorized their downloading/saving.
Clearly anyone that pretends that people are not going to download/copy/print a medical breakthrough news to discuss it with his/her medical doctor, or a legal decision/case to discuss it with his/her lawyer, or a warning about a consumer product to send to a friend, or an ad for product his/her wants to buy must be, to put it mildly, not in touch with reality.
Now, when the cartels from the rich countries of the world export their cynical theories about what is a crime to other countries, they create a lot of bad will.
The people of the cartel countries are dumb if they just sit back and watch their cartels abuse countries such as India, because every action has a reaction and the reaction is unpredictable.
Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com
January 15th, 2006 at 8:45 pm
tony,
let me clear your doubts
in india no one can play with law meaning if found guilty people go to jail
and many other people have both net access and internet connection
you can have unlimited internet connection for 800rps thats 17$ no download limit
if u have any question will be there to answer them