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jfmezei
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join:2007-01-03
Pointe-Claire, QC

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jfmezei to Hyrules

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Re: Hurt Locker P2P Lawsuit Comes to Canada

If sued, why not just buy the blue ray, show up in court, show the disc nd say that you downloaded the DRM free version because you can play it on any de ice in your home whereas the blue ray can only be played on the blue ray player. (if you are an apple fan your computers can't read blue ray).

Technically, you bougt he rights to view the movie by buying the blue ray. So the rights holders wouldn't be able to sue you.
static416
join:2007-01-26
Toronto, ON

static416

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said by jfmezei:

Technically, you bougt he rights to view the movie by buying the blue ray. So the rights holders wouldn't be able to sue you.

Even if you could 100% you downloaded the DRM-free version only AFTER you bought the BluRay, and only because you wanted to watch it on your iPad, you'd still be guilty.

Copyright law is about copies, not content. It's kind of stupid, but that's how it works. You bought the right to a specific form-factor, a specific copy. That does not give you the right to make or obtain copies of that work in any other form. You just have rights to that BluRay, not the content on it.

Of course this is also retarded. Everyone makes tons of illegal copies of everything all the time. That's how computers work. They make copies of data.

That guy that copy and pasted in that blog post a few posts back? 100%, unequivocally guilty of copyright infringement.
Reimer
join:2006-08-14
Toronto, ON

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But this isn't about making copies for your personal use. This is BitTorrent where you're uploading while you download. Therefore you're sharing and distributing copyright material.
static416
join:2007-01-26
Toronto, ON

static416

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said by Reimer:

But this isn't about making copies for your personal use. This is BitTorrent where you're uploading while you download. Therefore you're sharing and distributing copyright material.

Right. But that's mostly just the argument they use to justify the higher penalties. Merely downloading is still illegal, it's just less intuitively evil so they don't prosecute it when easier targets are around.

And for 99% of people the uploading portion of bittorrent is merely a unintended side-effect. They don't actually WANT to upload, it's just built into the tech and the culture.

Ott_Cable
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>Merely downloading is still illegal, it's just less intuitively evil so they don't prosecute it when easier targets are around.

The issue at hand is not about legality... If it were, then it won't be the copyright holder(s) suing in a Civil court.