You're misinformed then. The UK is as bad if not worse than the US. It's common for old ladies to be extorted by lawyers saying they downloaded gay porn that they didn't pay for. True story.death180 said:
Also lol @ all the paranoia here.
We are all criminals
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Also lol @ all the paranoia here.
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I fixed your post.Gimgak said:
I love the way corporations write the laws in our country.
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Imagine how beautiful the world would be if the police spent their time searching for real criminals instead of copyright violators and marijuana users.
Why aren't copyright violators criminals? Would you like someone else benefiting from your work, and you receiving almost nothing in comparison to them? It could be your idea which transforms a business and that gets accredited to someone else and you receive no recognition. Would you like that to happen?Snobothehobo said:
Of course there are different levels of copyright violations, but there are many people who steal other's works and ideas and benefits from them which any hard working person would not want happen to them.
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Mine as well just turn the whole country into a Giant Prison! We have broken a law sometime in our lives.
I'm going to laugh when they start arresting people for looking at so called "illegal" things online. The prisons will be full.
I do love living in Australia, such a vast landscape and many places to live, because i know when the world turns to shit where i am going.
I do love living in Australia, such a vast landscape and many places to live, because i know when the world turns to shit where i am going.
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Yeah they wouldn't have a jail big enough to house everyone. This is utterly ridiculous. What are they going to do if Barack Obama decides to send someone a link? Are they going to arrest him? Probably not!
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I misspoke. I meant people who commit low-level violations such as the one to which this post alludes. Even torrenting is fine in my opinion from a purely moral standpoint.DavidL said:
There's a difference between a copyright violator and piracy peddlers. When you say copyright infringement you don't mean someone who took your idea though. That alone can't be copyrighted, reason why you can have a video game cloning another game and as long as none of the characters, levels, etc are copied it's perfectly legal.DavidL said:
In any case, I believe copyright should simply expire earlier (say 10 years or so) than the ridiculous ever lasting copyright we are phasing in.
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Copyrights currently last seventy-five years unless I'm mistaken. That's way too long. Ten years would be very reasonable in my opinion. Try finding a game from more than ten years ago on store shelves. Illegal downloads are the only way to get some old games.
Interestingly enough, the first copyright law originated in England, and it was actually created to stop people from creating too much. The invention of the printing press was a threat to the British government because people could print seditious texts on a previously unfathomable scale, so the British government created copyright laws as a way to slow innovation.
Interestingly enough, the first copyright law originated in England, and it was actually created to stop people from creating too much. The invention of the printing press was a threat to the British government because people could print seditious texts on a previously unfathomable scale, so the British government created copyright laws as a way to slow innovation.
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