P2P File Sharing Could Cost You A Bundle 1000
geekee writes "CNET posted an article claiming you could be liable for $250,000 in fines and up to 3 years in prison for p2p file sharing. This is due to an obscure law called the No Electronic Theft (NET) act passed in 1997 (signed by Bill Clinton). Although the Justice Department has not prosecuted anyone under this new law, some members of congress have asked John Ashcroft to begin prosecuting. In response to the request, John Malcolm, a deputy assistant attorney general, said to expect some NET Act prosecutions."
Ok I deleted all my MP3s (Score:3, Funny)
Long live heather brooke.
woot.
(signed by Bill Clinton) (Score:3, Funny)
Under the new version of the bill, signed by George Bush, violaters will be declared "enemy combatants", will be stripped of all rights and will be held for life on the Guantanamo Bay military base.
Doh! (Score:5, Funny)
record companies get desperate (Score:5, Funny)
RIAA Executive Two: $250,000.
RIAA Executive One: Great, let's invoke an obscure five-year-old law that was applied in entirely different context and fine some average Joe for $250,000.
RIAA Executive Two: Why don't we lower the prices of CDs, since they cost practically nothing to make, to improve CD sales and regain our lost capital?
RIAA Executive One: Ha! That's a good one, Bob! Speaking of jokes, did you hear the one about the Irish man and the horse that...
That does it... (Score:5, Funny)
Some Ground Rules (Score:2, Funny)
Maybe just read the Kaaza article from last week, and if a viewpoint is not mentioned there, then post. But there is only so many times the same arguements can...
Oh, right I'm on
Nevermind.
I agree. (Score:3, Funny)
Everyone just likes to sit on their butt and whine about stuff they have never bothered to put any effort towards fixing.
Re:Bring it on (Score:5, Funny)
Re:My Theory (Score:5, Funny)
Why stop? (Score:5, Funny)
So in essence, theres no reason for me to stop, now that I've already started.
Woah, I dodged a bullet there! (Score:5, Funny)
Good thing I'm a leecher!
In a related story, the .NET act (Score:2, Funny)
"COULD cost"??!! (Score:5, Funny)
~$500 for two 120mb hard drives.
~$100 worth of cd-rs (most of which I've given away).
P2P sharing ALREADY costs me a bundle.
Re:"COULD cost"??!! (Score:5, Funny)
You're getting ripped off.
Swiss army knife (Score:5, Funny)
Well, a little red knife, anyway.
Or the big red knife:
- Tiny little scisors
- Tiny little screwdriver
- Tiny little tommygun
- Tiny little satelite uplink
- Tiny little antitank missile
- Tiny little tactical nuke
Re:"COULD cost"??!! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:How do they prove you don't already own the CDs (Score:2, Funny)
In the case of <ahem> some people I know, it'd be cheaper to pay the $250,000 fine.
Re:No, it did NOT say that. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:"COULD cost"??!! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Well (Score:1, Funny)
Yeah. The news story would be covering your free side trip to Guantanimo Bay. Or maybe not.
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Re:Funny (Score:2, Funny)
"One nation, under God..."
Re:Code 431.322.12 of the Internet Privacy Act (Score:4, Funny)
Come and get me (Score:3, Funny)
D'oh.
I've had enough of this government (Score:2, Funny)
Statute of Limitations (Score:5, Funny)
No, there is. IIRC, there's a three year statute of limiations on copyright violations, criminal or civl. (IANAL, duh)
Stop _right now_, and the chances of you getting smacked for P2P start decreasing by 0.09% every day.
Re:"COULD cost"??!! (Score:5, Funny)
Two 120mb hard drives... $500
CD-Rs... $100
Unlimited supply of Bang Bus dot com... Priceless
There are some things you CAN buy, for everything else theres P2P.
Priceless ... (Score:2, Funny)
Price of a empty CD: 1.5$
Price of a CD: 18$
Buy a CD writer: 150$
Buy a PC to do P2P: 1000$
illegal P2P usage: 250.000$
Living outside the US: PRICELESS!
(disclaimer: this is humor and does not mean I am a illegal P2P user
Re:So don't use Kazaa... (Score:3, Funny)
Any real geek would be at his workstation until dawn. He would hear the FBI bust down the door and have more than enough time to scramble a fdisk command into the console.
Eh? (Score:4, Funny)
In 2001, a 21-year-old Michigan man named Brian Baltutat was successfully prosecuted under the NET Act for posting a mere 142 software programs on the "Hacker Hurricane" Web site.
'Mere'?
I didn't even know that there were 142 software programs out there worth stealing...
Re:Any Risk Downloading Out-of-Print Titles? (Score:5, Funny)
I think you've really got something there. It wouldn't take much to convince a jury and a judge that the value of those mp3s is $0.00 simply because it's out of print.
Cross examining the label, "Why is this CD out of print?" "Because it wouldn't be financially benefitial to print it" "Are you saying that it would cost more to print the CD than it would make?" "Yes"
Then while questioning you, "I understood you burned these mp3s to a CD?" "Yes" "How much did that cost you?" "50 cents" "It cost you 50 cents to create this CD?" "Yes"
In summation, "You've heard testimony that it would cost more to print the CD than they'd make selling it. My client printed this CD for 50 cents. These mp3s are worth less than 50 cents.. I'd say my client is guilty! Guilty of stealing 50 cents. I implore the jury to right this injustice, and demand that my client pay back that 50 cents to the record label"
The precedent set would be wonderful.
Re:Funny (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, but that last canton had a huge number of disputed votes mistakenly cast for Pat Buchanan!
Re:Code 431.322.12 of the Internet Privacy Act (Score:4, Funny)
I watched it happen before -- the Scientologists use this technical extensively. The idea of a lawsuit, according to Hubbard, was not to win, but to harrass, to intimidate, to bankrupt, to exhaust, to ruin. In advanced cases, the broken victim can even be brought on board the attacker's cause, as a requirement for cessation of legal attacks. Oh, and gag clauses for the poor schmuck is standard as well.
You've just slandered the Church! We'll see you in court. Have a nice day.
-- I bent my Wookie
Re:If swapping is stealin then..... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Statute of Limitations (Score:1, Funny)
So? Jesus H. Christ, what a stupid sig. Because some idiot on the radio (James Dobson) waged war on RPGs a few years ago, saying that they were sinful and promoted violence, and a bunch of idiot sheep bought into that, I am supposed to be shocked that a christian plays RPGs? Well hey! I'm an athiest... and a FPS gamer. Fucking Wow!
Re:Funny (Score:5, Funny)
1) Abortion (except for pro-choice pubs and pro-life dems)
2) Death Pe--wait, Romney is a Republican...
3) Profit! (no actually that's both too...hmmm...)
So because of these clear differences and the fact that the Senator from Disney is a Repub-- well anyway because we know Republicans are BAD, and Democrats are GOOD, any law signed by Bill Clinton must be good.
So you should have read the whole slashdot lead-in so you knew which way to think about the issue based on party affiliation.
Any other way wouldn't be Democratic.
Re:So don't use Kazaa... (Score:5, Funny)
Damn, wish I had mod points. That definitely rates a +1 funny!
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A Surefire way to... (Score:5, Funny)
Basically anything that suggests you're a blonde, pretty teenage girl. There's no fucking way the RIAA et al. are going to sue someone like that; the publicity would decimate them.
Oh... you might have to stop sharing all those German Leather Dungeon mpegs, though, just to keep up the facade.
Although, who the fuck knows what teenage girls are into these days...
Re:Code 431.322.12 of the Internet Privacy Act (Score:3, Funny)
Or how about RBL's? It goes something like this:
Admin 1: "What's this weird netblock doing in the OC-9 cisco table? And why's it getting bit-bucketed???"
Admin 2: "It's the new IP's for the weekly RIAA netflood"
Admin 1: "Then why arent we switching the dest/src fields? heh heh"
Admin 2: "Yeah, give it back at-em"
Re:Funny (Score:2, Funny)
in our red china, they lift your hands, and say: "Hey, this guy vote yes!"
Re:Ok I deleted all my MP3s (Score:3, Funny)
While I think it is perfectly acceptable to wish a long and healthy life to Heather, I *do* hope that she does not spend all of that life in her current profession. Not because I am opposed to what she does, It's just, when she is is 60-70...
I think I'll leave that thought uncompleted.
Re:IT'S JUST STUPID AMERICA!!! WE DON'T HAVE THAT. (Score:2, Funny)
Oh, yes we do [slashdot.org].
Re:Code 431.322.12 of the Internet Privacy Act (Score:3, Funny)
Saying your mother wears army boots when she doesn't is slander.
Saying your mother wears army boots when she does is not slander, it's fact.