BitTorrent Users Sued Over Paris Hilton Porn

[rhino13]

Theft is theft.
If you steal you should pay.
If you help millions of people steal you should pay more.
Regardless of the snide comments and seedy material XPAYS is in the right; those who stole the film are in the wrong.

 

[hanrak]

[citation][nom]rhino13[/nom]Theft is theft.If you steal you should pay.If you help millions of people steal you should pay more.Regardless of the snide comments and seedy material XPAYS is in the right; those who stole the film are in the wrong.[/citation]

But just who is doing the thieving? Greedy fat filthy mega corporations charging obscene amounts of money thats who.
Get on your high moral horse all you want but the fact of the matter is, millions upon millions of people pirate and for good reason too. If people including developers drop these fat money chasing corporate assholes prices will come down. period.

 

[mayankleoboy1]

a substantial amount of time, money and effort to produce, market and distribute

 

[mikem_90]

[citation][nom]rhino13[/nom]Theft is theft.If you steal you should pay.If you help millions of people steal you should pay more.Regardless of the snide comments and seedy material XPAYS is in the right; those who stole the film are in the wrong.[/citation]

Only its not Theft. That is a big misnomer. Theft is where I take something away from you, Copyright infringements are not theft since I am not taking away something.

This is unauthorized distribution. Treating it like theft is wrong. If I stole a bunch of these DVDs (apart from having to wash my hands afterward), that would be theft.

While still wrong, its the distinction that is important. If I were to make my own movie and try to sell it myself, but some guys copy it around, who do I call? The police? They won't do a damn thing. Because its NOT THEFT. Its a violation of my Copyright, not a criminal incident.

 

[mikem_90]

[citation][nom]andrewpmathias[/nom]I'm so tired of DVD and CD copy right suits. I feel that once you legally buy something such as a CD/DVD then you own that DVD. Once you own that DVD it becomes your own intellectual property and you can do whatever the hell you want with it.[/citation]

Herein lies the problem, you don't have the right to make a bunch of copies and hand them out to all your friends or sell them to other people. Why should the company expect to sell more than ONE DVD ever of anything if people will just copy and sell/give to other people? Could the studio recoup all the costs of making the movie Avatar if they sold just one DVD?

My thoughts are: Yes we have rights to do things with the discs, but not to copy and give out all over the place. You can't 100% stop all piracy, so go after the bootleggers and let the friends sharing a movie between them be FREE PROMOTION. If they actually have the disposable income to buy the movie, they may want to buy a real copy which likely will be of higher quality or a special edition that includes other nifty stuff. If big giant sharing sites pop up? Send them DCMA letters, its cheap and easy. The website can see about banning if its egregious, if not, then they can go through the legal hoops to bring a lawsuit, but no cluster lawsuits.