Torrent Users Fight Back

eonlabs writes "Torrent users being blamed for illegally downloading Far Cry are fighting back. In a 96-page lawsuit, the lawyers at Dunlap, Grubb, and Weaver are being accused of: 'extortion, fraudulent omissions, mail fraud, wire fraud, computer fraud and abuse, racketeering, fraud upon the court, abuse of process, fraud on the Copyright Office, copyright misuse, unjust enrichment, and consumer protection violations.'"

May it be the first of many

[Anonymous Coward]

Let us raise our glasses in toast to these people and hope that they will be successful, and that their success will cause more to follow in their footsteps.

This won't go anywhere

[bigsexyjoe]

Sure the law might be on their side, but we aren't ruled by laws, we are ruled by men. While the "law" might say one thing, the judges adhere to a sort of spirit of the law. And the spirit of the law is that big corporations and corporate are implicitly responsible, good and therefore in the right. When they don't like what a young person does that young person is in the wrong. It's just that simple.

Re:New Hollywood business model

[Caerdwyn]

How to circumvent the above business model:

1. Don't download movies you haven't paid for.

Re:New Hollywood business model

[digitaldc]

Even if you already bought the BetaMax, VHS, DVD, HDDVD, BluRay media before?

Re:This won't go anywhere

[hldn]

Come back when you have formed a business (you know, incorporated), and have spent some time dealing with the paperwork and legal entanglements. Then create something that a lot of people want, and which is therefore widely ripped off by people who don't think they have any obligation to meet their entertainers in an actual market (nope! entertainment slaves are just fine, right?), and spend some time enjoying that scenario for a while.

"Young people" who leech off of the creative people whose work they want are in no position to complain when they get spanked for doing so.

what a bunch of whiny bullshit.

Re:This won't go anywhere

[bigsexyjoe]

It is incredibly ironic that I stated that court cases are largely judged by who the parties are, and you argued it by saying I don't have a right to make my point based on who I am and what you imagine my accomplishments are. You are illustrating the kind of thinking that I am referring to and I thank you for that.

Furthermore, I wasn't complaining about being on the receiving end of anything; I am an uninvolved third party in this dispute. You are complaining about "young people" and making a sweeping generalization that they buy expensive coffee.

You are simply not talking about the laws that this legal case involves. You are instead saying that young people in disputes with businesses deserve to be "spanked." And shouldn't "complain" (which in this case means exercise their legal rights based on the laws as they are written).

Re:Piracy is not the answer

[Troggie87]

Not only is piracy unethical but it also tells people like Uwe Boll that there is actually demand for his terrible movies.

Lets be careful about using the word unethical. Illegal certainly, and for arguably good reason. Ethics is another thing entirely. Simply being "the law" doesn't lend much (if any) ethical weight to an idea.