Russia Not Holding Downloaders Liable of Piracy

[exfileme]

Russia will hold websites accountable for illegal content while file sharers will be pushed into an educational program.

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[assasin32]

Wow Russia has far more common sense than what the US does when it comes to this, it's past ridiculous here when it comes to being caught pirating material. I am willing to bet their idea of education campaigne is more along the lines of our version of Traffic School too.

 

[rohitbaran]

Well, this probably makes sense. Uploading is a more serious problem than downloading.

 

[kanoobie]

Russia's copyright enforcement laws might make more common sense since they probably have much less lobby groups promoting special interests in this department.

 

[frombehind]

In soviet russia we send you to the mines in Siberia for "re-education"

 

[dimar]

Governments need to get to the core of the problem. Find out why do people download that stuff in the first place.

 

[danwat1234]

"after the websites responsible for providing the copyrighted content" Does TPB provide copyrighted content? Nope

 

[capt_taco]

here we go Russia, here we go (clap clap)

 

[FinneousPJ]

Moskau calling~

 

[nino_z]

That's right - a country decided that it will enforce its own laws over those of another country. Everything else would have surprised me anyway. I would sure hate to live in the US with all those restrictions taking place. Land of freedom my ass...

 

[DRosencraft]

I think [now]dimar[/nom] has the right idea. To treat a problem you have to find its source, not just treat its symptoms. While I do think it's too easy to just say that the downloader is just uninformed and without fault, this is heading in the right direction. It only makes sense that the uploader is the origination of the problem, more so than the downloader.

 

[happyballz]

Tom's what the hell is wrong with your forums? Keep getting errors when posting and cant access the main forum, says no permission.

 

[aoneone]

US should rethink their policy and do what this guy does. Go AFTER the websites that contain the piracy! Thank you! ^_^

 

[punahou1]

I must say that I am very disappointed with our politicians - sounds like Russia has their act together. I have been abused by the music industry simply because I am older and have had to upgrade my music media over the years. For many songs I have 5 licenses - 8 track, 45, LP, Cassette & CD. According to this law I should be free to download anything from my old school collection...

 

[sam buddy]

"Soviet" Russia?! That was 22 years ago!