Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues
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Re: Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues
#2The world has become so strange. In my pirate youth, I would have never imagined the big companies to argue in courts like this, basically pro piracy. And the activists are now against it, because the big guys are doing it.
Re: Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues
#3Oh, how the tables have turned...
Re: Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues
#4The world has become so strange. In my pirate youth, I would have never imagined the big companies to argue in courts like this, basically pro piracy. And the activists are now against it, because the big guys are doing it.
Big companies are stealing to enrich themselves, while small time pirates were pirating for their own entertainment. Some of the latter went to jail. While the former rake in the dough.
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#5The world has become so strange. In my pirate youth, I would have never imagined the big companies to argue in courts like this, basically pro piracy. And the activists are now against it, because the big guys are doing it.
I haven't changed. I was pro 20 years ago and I am pro now.
Re: Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues
#6I remember in the 90s and 2000s, the FBI would go after homeless people selling bootleg VHS and DVDs on the street lol
Re: Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues
#7> Anyone who uses BitTorrent to transfer files automatically uploads content to other people, as it is inherent to the protocol. In other words, the uploading wasn’t a choice, it was simply how the technology works.
What an argument to make in court. It can be proved false in minutes by the plaintiffs.
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#8> Anyone who uses BitTorrent to transfer files automatically uploads content to other people, as it is inherent to the protocol. In other words, the uploading wasn’t a choice, it was simply how the technology works. What an argument to make in court. It can be proved false in minutes by the plaintiffs.
I can't believe that no one has ever tried that one before... So do we now roll back all of the previous copyright cases where downloading music with bittorrent has been prosecuted?
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#9The world has become so strange. In my pirate youth, I would have never imagined the big companies to argue in courts like this, basically pro piracy. And the activists are now against it, because the big guys are doing it.
Just need to get around to understand that on many subjects big companies are not uniform block... They all have their own goals and ways of profit. Other than exploiting the consumers and state.
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#10Gut reaction: Judge needs to upload Meta's lawyers to jail cells, explaining "that's simply how the technology works".