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SOPA started it's attack D:!!!
PsYk0Wo1F:
its meant to be opticraft.net, doesnt work for me either
Hasan (Tabooti):
That's odd, I wonder why it doesn't work :P
impishmonkey:
--- Quote from: tabooti on February 10, 2012, 08:12:03 am ---IF you live in the USA, Now if you're caught pirating in the USA, you can get up to 4 years in jail I think, and up to 250,000$ in fines.
Now on the other hand, SOPA & PIPA can become tools to pressure the Domain name providers into stopping to host the websites or they may face charges (IF they are US based)
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Where are you getting that from.... I have never heard of someone getting slammed with that in the US. Do you mean outside the US? ;D
Nick3306:
--- Quote from: tabooti on February 10, 2012, 08:12:03 am ---IF you live in the USA, Now if you're caught pirating in the USA, you can get up to 4 years in jail I think,
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Good, pirates are no better than thieves.
By the way, I'm not sure where you get your info from, but piracy is illegal in Canada too.
Hasan (Tabooti):
--- Quote from: Nick3306 on February 11, 2012, 05:33:06 pm ---
--- Quote from: tabooti on February 10, 2012, 08:12:03 am ---IF you live in the USA, Now if you're caught pirating in the USA, you can get up to 4 years in jail I think,
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Good, pirates are no better than thieves.
By the way, I'm not sure where you get your info from, but piracy is illegal in Canada too.
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No, It's completely legal as long as it's used for personal use, and not re-sale. So if I pirate a bunch of movies & sell them to some people, that's illegal, but if I pirate a bunch of movies & watch them myself, that's legal.
--- Quote from: wikipedia --- 2004: BMG Canada Inc. v. John Doe
The court further found that both downloading music and putting it in a shared folder available to other people online were legal in Canada. This decision dealt a major blow to attempts by the CRIA to crack down on file sharers
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--- Quote from: wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement ---
Countries where sharing files without profit is legal
Downloading copied music is legal in some countries in the context of the copyright, such as Canada,[16] The Netherlands,[17] Spain,[18] and Panama, provided that the songs are not sold. In Canada it is legal to download any copyrighted file as long as it is for noncommercial use, but it is illegal to distribute the copyrighted files (e.g. by uploading them to a P2P network). [19]
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I'm not liar nick, I know my Law, otherwise I wouldn't be a pirate.
And no, Pirating is not like thievery, Piracy is like someone buying the movie/game/music and copying it so all his friends can use it.
That's just like going to a cooking school & learning a recipe, and after learning the recipe you teach it your friends & family.
Under piracy law, sharing that recipe becomes illegal, because all your friends didn't go & pay the cookery school to learn the recipe, but instead got it for free.
So under law...they would all be criminals.
Making File sharing illegal doesn't work, as I've proved, It damages the creativity of the internet. Under SOPA, simply linking to a copyrighted video could force people to shut down their websites, or have them arrested, which is ludicrous.
Bottom line is, Hollywood is greedy for more of it's money, and wants to force everyone to find no other way to entertain themselves other than go spend it on their garbage.
Plus according to research, most of the money saved by pirates, actually end up being spent on entertainment anyways, so all those companies aren't really losing that much money anyways.
I pirated Skyrim, and I didn't like it. I didn't want to pay 70$ to play a disappointing game that I ended up uninstalling anyways.
And other games aren't available for sale anymore, such as Red alert 2, or Cossacks: Back to war, ect ect, and there's no other way to get them but from people who already own the files.
With these new laws enacted, It will become illegal to download or upload games that are no longer being sold.
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