Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 8th Feb 2013 02:02 UTC
"This means that people can no longer get convicted for violating the copyright monopoly alone. The court just declared it illegal for any court in Europe to convict somebody for breaking the copyright monopoly law when sharing culture, only on the merits of breaking the law. A court that tries somebody for violating the copyright monopoly must now also show that a conviction is necessary to defend democracy itself in order to convict. This is a considerably higher bar to meet." Well, that's progress, I guess.
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Are you to young to remember tape-mix sharing times? Tell me your excuse why that isn't illegal but cd-mix is (according to media-mafia, not the law as we just got confirmed).
The difference is that you couldn't make an infinite amount of tapes for $0, and share those with several million people, so it's not exactly an apples-to-apples comparison. And besides, I'm not arguing that this stuff shouldn't be legal. I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy of those who say that it should be legal to share, but only what THEY think should be allowed to be shared.
Its not how filesharing works. There is no give-to-get with those you share with just like there is no value assigned to bytes transfered.
You've obviously never heard of FTP ratios
Or IRC, where someone says, "I know you want x, I'll trade for it if you have y..."
Member since:2008-09-21
Neither can I infinite upload for $0. Power is expensive and so is internet. Wait, I could make infinite copies of mix-tapes for $0 when people brought there tapes back so I could replace the old copied stuff with new copied stuff.
For FTP ratios: I did and also know there are people asking for money in return. That's unrelated to this article which is about filesharing with no profits (legal) and not the black market (illegal). Learn to differ, its not the same.
Edited 2013-02-09 03:01 UTC
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And here we are hitting fair-use. Nobody can demand anything from you. You are free to talk about that product, to consume it under whatever conditions (like together with your girl-/boyfriend even if she/he did not buy that product - or not even likes to consume but is forced too), to write your opinion how good/bad that product is, to show and consume it together with friends and so on.
Its always a matter of balance and the interests or wishes of the producer is by no mean the most important aspect.
Sharing the product with friends is legal in many countries (private copy) for very good reasons. Selling the product on to somebody else once you not like to enjoy it any longer is legal and protected for reasons. Making copies and selling the product on is ILLEGAL for good reasons. Sharing for free? Without profit? Legal in lot countries. That people are still hunted down for that is illegal and that's what the court just outlined. They had to cause in reality people are still en masses hunted and robbed for something legal. That, my dear friend, is illegal.
There is no excuse needed. Eg german law explicit says "Gewerbliche Ausmasse" what means profit. If no profit then not illegal. This IS law! That in reality SOME courts interpreted it different (and some not) is a problem. That problem got addressed now.
Are you to young to remember tape-mix sharing times? Tell me your excuse why that isn't illegal but cd-mix is (according to media-mafia, not the law as we just got confirmed).
Its not how filesharing works. There is no give-to-get with those you share with just like there is no value assigned to bytes transfered. If you down- or upload the latest hollywood-video, a linux iso or music you produced your own, its all bytes that can be infinite duplicated, destroyed, edited and modified without any human interaction. With filesharing its more then clear that there is no profit, no earning associated for those sharing there data.
Edited 2013-02-08 16:56 UTC