Brazilian Court Bans P2P Software

Earlier this year, at the behest of an anti-piracy group consisting of the usual suspects from the recording industry, a Brazilian court ruled that a company named Cadare Information Technology must implement a filter on the P2P software they distributed on their website to weed out copyrighted content. Cadare was unable comply with the order because they didn't develop the software; they merely offered it for download. The case went back to court, and a Brazilian judge has now decided to ban distribution of the software because it can be used to assist copyright infringement. "He went on to suggest that any website offering the software alongside advertising (i.e, trying to profit from offering it) would be committing a crime, punishable by between two and four years in jail."

Re:Is it time....

[Anonymous Coward]

tell me what software interacts wwith the net....that cant be used for p2p use....
and let the LIST BEGIN
let em ban it all and see what kind of interent they have
no webs ervers
no ftp servers
no streaming servers
no chat servers
hrm whats left......

Time to ban energy

[IsMyNameTaken]

Well, lets see...

CD burners: only pirates use those to make copies of disks

DVR: makes illegal copies of shows

MP3/4 players: plays copies that are likely illegal

blank media: odds are it is going to be used to make illegal copies

mass storage: who needs over a few MEG, any more and you must be using it to store illegal music/movies/software

printer: you could print out books cutting out the publisher

computers: used to copy music/movies/software and share them

email/mail/pigeons with flash drives: used to send illegal copies

When it comes right down to it the only way to stop anything from "assist[ing] copyright infringement" is to ban all energy, without movement data cannot be transferred hence no copies! Now how much energy will it take to cool Brazil down to absolute zero?

Re:Why just p2p?

[whoever57]

So, then, explain to me why it is impossible to use Google in a way that infringes copyright.

And, if you cannot, why then it is different from these other search providers.

It has nothing to do with technical differences and everything to do with how the tools are used. Yes, P2P has legitimate uses and is used by many for legitimate trading of files. However, the dominant use is illegitimate trading of files.

Re:Why just p2p?

[Totenglocke]

One of the dominate uses of the internet is viewing porn (not going into any potential copyright on said porn). Does that mean that the internet should be banned under existing obscenity laws?

Re:Is it time....

[jamstar7]

The number of them seems to be getting to the point where we're going to need to start culling them like deer. Perhaps a tag system ... say two per year per person. Ahhh ... I can almost see the BMW and Brooks Brothers logos up over the fireplace as you tell the grandkids "Yep, that one was a civil lawyer ... got him from 250 yards"

They mark trees to be culled with a big red X painted on them. Howbout we mark the lawyers with Bluetooth headsets?

Re:Is it time....

[ivucica]

And we don't even have to spend time and effort - they already do it themselves! Question is, how do we differ them from the common businessman?