Comments on: MPAA gets a taste of its own medicine

By: College students: The MPAA still hates you

College students: The MPAA still hates you — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:18:20 +0000

[...] that saga unfolded, the MPAA was accused of stealing copyrighted material to use as their toolkit, so red-faced, it withdrew its deployments and removed the link to the [...]

By: Earl

Earl — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:51:00 +0000

Yeah and that's $10k for each item of opensource they allowed to be downloaded — so its probably 100k per download at least

By: Earl

Earl — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 00:51:00 +0000

Yeah and that’s $10k for each item of opensource they allowed to be downloaded — so its probably 100k per download at least

By: Ash

Ash — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:02:00 +0000

Awesome, love it

By: Ash

Ash — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:02:41 +0000

Awesome, love it

By: Techgirl

Techgirl — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:10:00 +0000

Now, it would truly be poetic justice if the MPAA was sued, and had to pay fines for each instance of the "University Toolkit" downloaded. Don't they usually claim $10,000 per violation? That would be a great "taste of your own medicine"!!

By: Techgirl

Techgirl — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:10:00 +0000

Now, it would truly be poetic justice if the MPAA was sued, and had to pay fines for each instance of the “University Toolkit” downloaded. Don’t they usually claim $10,000 per violation? That would be a great “taste of your own medicine”!!

By: Techgirl

Techgirl — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:10:00 +0000

By: HumanTarget

HumanTarget — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:35:00 +0000

Nice move, and fitting.

This stuff is kind of hard, on the one hand people should have the right to be paid for their work but on the other there's this heavy-handedness and just blatant greed of the big industries. Not to say there isn't greed from the pirates too but they lack the power to really permanently degrade important civil rights like industry backed legislation can.

I think we need to be prepared to err on the side of the individual though, rather than corporations who chose to do business in mediums that are so susceptible to copyright issues. One of the earliest tenets of our justice system is that it's better for a hundred guilty to go free than for a single innocent to be wrongly convicted, and already we've seen people wrongly subjected to huge burdens based on false accusations by draconian industry rights guardians.

By: HumanTarget

HumanTarget — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 17:35:00 +0000

Nice move, and fitting.

This stuff is kind of hard, on the one hand people should have the right to be paid for their work but on the other there’s this heavy-handedness and just blatant greed of the big industries. Not to say there isn’t greed from the pirates too but they lack the power to really permanently degrade important civil rights like industry backed legislation can.

I think we need to be prepared to err on the side of the individual though, rather than corporations who chose to do business in mediums that are so susceptible to copyright issues. One of the earliest tenets of our justice system is that it’s better for a hundred guilty to go free than for a single innocent to be wrongly convicted, and already we’ve seen people wrongly subjected to huge burdens based on false accusations by draconian industry rights guardians.

By: Ackondro

Ackondro — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 12:32:00 +0000

This makes my day, to see drones being defeated by intelligence. Plus the fact that I don't have to worry about my uni's network going down because of the MPAA's stupidity is always good.

By: Ackondro

Ackondro — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:32:00 +0000

This makes my day, to see drones being defeated by intelligence. Plus the fact that I don’t have to worry about my uni’s network going down because of the MPAA’s stupidity is always good.