| Messed Up Why is it that if a company spies on another for trade secrets, it is shut down and anyone aware is thrown in jail and fined heavily, but if the MPAA does it, no one will do anything? For one, The Pirate Bay's activities should be legal entirely, and, secondly, if your going to hold others to the rules, you better be playing by them yourself. Definite cause for at *least* a retrial for TorrentSpy, if not a reversal, as others have said. This is horribly wrong and an embarrassment to the already-embarrassing-to-inhabit U.S. of A. Not really proud to be an American at the moment. |
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| said by Californian :
Why is it that if a company spies on another for trade secrets, it is shut down and anyone aware is thrown in jail and fined heavily, but if the MPAA does it, no one will do anything? Good point. I'd like to see someone step up and defend that one.
So where's the list of who is allowed to break the law and who is not? That would be handy to know.
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kudos:2 | said by fatness:Good point. I'd like to see someone step up and defend that one. So where's the list of who is allowed to break the law and who is not? That would be handy to know. Sure I'll defend it. Like most of the slanted opinions that pass as actual news here, eveyone's skipped over the boring details in favor of the premature conclusion. Anything to make the big, bad MPAA look like crooks, right?
No one even knows whether or not the MPAA broke any laws. That's why there's a lawsuit which will determine the validity of a disgruntled ex-MPAA payrolled "hacker" claims.
The "hacker" admits that he was contracted to provide legally obtainable information, but adds that it was "understood" that illegal stuff would be great too. Did he provide illegally obtained info and pass it off as legal? Dunno.
If he can prove that the MPAA knowingly accepted illegally obtained info, then I'm sure the MPAA will get smacked pretty effing hard, depending on whether or not the alleged illegally obtained infomation influenced the case against torrentspy.
Everyone here is just squealing for the MPAA to get roasted before the facts are even fleshed out in court.
If the MPAA is guilty of these allegations, they will get trashed. We will have to wait and see.
Until then, no claims of "double-standard" or "who is allowed to break the law" are really valid since the outcome is yet to be determined.
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| said by Jehu:Sure I'll defend it. You didn't.
You talked about biased opinions.
You talked about premature conclusions.
You talked about legal activities the hacker might have performed.
You talked about proof.
You didn't defend illegal activities the hacker might have performed.
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kudos:2 | Point being.. there's nothing to defend until there's actual proof of wrong-doing.
In fantasy land, if your illegal informant turns on you, then perhaps he was a bad idea, unless the gain outweighs the repercussion.
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