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U.S. judge doubts IP addresses can identify pirates

article published on 9 May, 2012

United States Magistrate Judge Gary R Brown laments "abusive litigation." Brown criticised legal arguments that an IP address is sufficient for identifying an individual responsible for copyright infringement online. He made the comments in the K-Beech, Inc. v. John Does 1-37 case which deals with the illegal sharing of adult entertainment videos. "The assumption that the person who ... [ read the full article ]

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Clam_Up

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9. May 2012 @ 05:23

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I gotta say it...

Capitalist societies were never intended to sustain a production system where production entities are capable of duplicating their works without a compensated labor force.

The justice system was also never prepared for such a system. The evidence of this is a justice system which allows the producers, who are benefiting from having no compensatory distribution requirements, to use their unbalanced financial strength to influence the judicial system into convicting those accused of crimes before being found guilty of those crimes.

Since governments feel the need to tax everything else to death, I propose there should be a tax on the free digital reproduction of media which needs no labor force to be distributed. That money should be put to use in some fashion which provides jobs to replace a huge labor pool which has been eradicated.

Maybe if Hollywood had to pay for their digital copies the way they expect everyone else to, they wouldn't have the financial power to buy and sell justice at their whim.

...just a thought.

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nbfreak2

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9. May 2012 @ 07:51

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Glad to see a judge thats knows the reality of things...

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mystic

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9. May 2012 @ 11:03

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now that this is on the books we all can point to it and say its already been ruled on... this will help if you claiming to have been spoofed

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LordRuss

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9. May 2012 @ 12:02

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Originally posted by Clam_Up:

Maybe if Hollywood had to pay for their digital copies the way they expect everyone else to, they wouldn't have the financial power to buy and sell justice at their whim.

It's called our ticket prices, DVD sales & belligerent blitzkrieg advertising & "WE" (the viewing audience) pay each time we purchase the products or a ticket.

And unless you were being facetious, Hollywood already thinks they can dictate justice at their whim via their lobbying the RIAA/MPAA & their barrage of bullshit legislation.

I wouldn't have a problem with it... if their original intentions were indeed 'noble'. They're not.

Seeing as I live in a college town & the bulk of these kids are on their way out now; I've been hit again with a piece of hate mail by my ISP for supposedly pirating a game.

Now, any correspondence with them is instantly going to be seen as an admission of guilt in their eyes & they'll pass the buck. I simply won't have that. I'll change the log-in info on the router again & wait till next year when my ISP tries to cut me off for a 3rd offense (as they don't seem to have any statute of limitations for offenses) & I'll raise hell with them.

It's the American way.

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numscull

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9. May 2012 @ 20:29

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Of course it's abusive litigation....and extortion....and injustice. Either pay a few thousand dollars now, or pay a lawyer tens of thousands of dollars to represent you. Guilty or not. Doesn't matter. The previous judges have stated that you should have stood guard over your computer or encrypted your router. Naughty naughty. Glad to see one judge out there with common sense. Stop this nonsense of picking on people without the ability or resourses to prove their innocence.

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