Cheese
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join:2003-10-26
Naples, FL
clubs: | Hmmm
Interesting, very interesting.... |
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jc100
join:2002-04-10 | Nope.. not at all. So in order to get around such shaky ground, the RIAA sends someone to download the file and log such activity. There by, they claim the person broke the law and that they now had net losses. Easy fix. |
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hoyleysox
join:2003-11-07
Long Beach, CA | If the RIAA did that on Bittorrent, they would be breaking the law by making the infringing file available for others to download also... |
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jc100
join:2002-04-10 | They own title to said file, so it's not illegal to share. The FBI has done that to catch pirates, so I'm sure the RIAA can. |
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KrK
Heavy Artillery For The Little Guy
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join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK
 ·Cox HSI
 ·AT&T Southwest
| reply to jc100
said by jc100  :Nope.. not at all. So in order to get around such shaky ground, the RIAA sends someone to download the file and log such activity. There by, they claim the person broke the law and that they now had net losses. Easy fix. That would require breaking the law.
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Skippy25
join:2000-09-13
Hazelwood, MO | Nice try, but if the company they hire to download the files were given authorization to do such (which they would be as that is what they were hired for), then that company is not breaking any law. |
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Maggs
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join:2002-11-29
Woodside, NY
clubs: | reply to KrK
Wouldn't that be entrapment |
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GamerGeek
join:2003-07-26
Fortuna, CA
| said by Maggs :Wouldn't that be entrapment That would most definitely be entrapment. |
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jc100
join:2002-04-10
·RoadRunner Cable
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No. Entrapment is a very tough defense that RARELY if ever works. I mean the police these days pretend to be kids and snare people. The person on the other line is an adult, yet they get them for attempted solicitation of a minor. That is entrapment but they still get those people. That's just one example. The only time I CAN EVER remember the entrapment defense working in a major case would be with Delorean. Delorean was approached by the FBI to sell drugs after his was going bankrupt. T hey then got him on drug charges and he won on the defense they approached him and not vice versa. However, 99.99 percent of the time, you're shit out of luck with that defense. |
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Yikes2000
join:2001-08-15
Irvine, CA | reply to jc100
If RIAA shares the file on BitTorrent, then RIAA is in effect granting the downloaders to share the file with others because downloading requires sharing in standard BitTorrent. |
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root9
join:2005-04-08
Kitchener, ON
·Bell Sympatico
| reply to jc100
said by jc100 :They own title to said file, so it's not illegal to share. The FBI has done that to catch pirates, so I'm sure the RIAA can. Technically RIAA doesn't own the title to anything. People who they represent do. Therefore RIAA is liable just as anyone else if they download said illegal content.
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