Downloaders’ be warned, you’re next—gov’t

[Altis6453]

I know one particular government agency that's using pirated windows. Bakit kaya hindi kaya tirahin ng BSA ýun?

[Jun aka Pekto]

It's just so nice to be living in the land of plenty where everyone can afford to have choices of either buying DVDs and still have money for food, rent, electricity, etc.

Its different here where the price of buying a few original DVDs can equal two weeks salary.

If that's the case there, then perhaps money is better spent on the necessities of life first. That's what we do here. Being in the land of plenty doesn't change anything.

I lived there (RP) for a time without the benefit of a computer or downloading movies/software and yet I had a great time going out and having fun. Having no job, any music/videos I wanted were taped via radio or tv. I've traveled back to the US numerous times and found many shows/music not being available back at RP. I lived without them. Oh well. No big loss. Even then, my parents taught me stealing is wrong. I doubt that's changed over there.

[Horsepower]

now for some entertainment:

> VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL
> AND U.S. MAIL
>
> ************.org
> Box 1206
> Stockholm 11479
> SWEDEN
>
> [email]tracker-40-aa-5f-03-412675c8*prq.to
>
> Re: Unauthorized Use of DreamWorks SKG Properties
> http://www.************.org
>
> To Whom It May Concern:
>
> This letter is being written to you on behalf of our
> client, DreamWorks SKG (hereinafter ^ÓDreamWorks^Ô).
> DreamWorks is the exclusive owner of all copyright,
> trademark and other intellectual property rights in
> and to the ^ÓShrek 2^Ô motion picture. No one is
> authorized to copy, reproduce, distribute, or
> otherwise use the ^ÓShrek 2^Ô motion picture without
> the express written permission of DreamWorks.
[...]
> As you may be aware, Internet Service Providers can
> be held liable if they do not respond to claims of
> infringement pursuant to the requirements of the
> Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). In
> accordance with the DMCA, we request your assistance
> in the removal of infringements of the ^ÓShrek 2^Ô
> motion picture from this web site and any other sites
> for which you act as an Internet Service Provider.
> We further declare under penalty of perjury that we
> are authorized to act on behalf of DreamWorks and
> that the information in this letter is accurate.
> Please contact me immediately to discuss this matter
> further.

As you may or may not be aware, Sweden is not a state in the United States
of America. Sweden is a country in northern Europe.
Unless you figured it out by now, US law does not apply here.
For your information, no Swedish law is being violated.

Please be assured that any further contact with us, regardless of medium,
will result in
a) a suit being filed for harassment
b) a formal complaint lodged with the bar of your legal counsel, for
sending frivolous legal threats.

It is the opinion of us and our lawyers that you are ....... morons, and
that you should please go sodomize yourself with retractable batons.

Please also note that your e-mail and letter will be published in full on
http://www.************.org.

Go **** yourself.

Polite as usual,
anakata

> Fredrik Neij
> PRQ
> Box 1206
> Stockholm, Sweden 11479
>
>
> Re: Electronic Arts Trademark and Copyright
> Infringement Notice
>
>
> Dear Mr. Neij:
>
> It has been brought to the attention of Electronic Arts Inc. ("EA") that
> the website http://www.piratebay.org with the IP addresses of
> 217.75.120.115, 217.75.120.116, 217.75.120.118 is conducting
> unauthorized activities with respect to EA's copyrighted software, The
> Sims 2. The aforementioned website is offering and distributing
> bit******* seeds for an unauthorized downloadable version of this EA
> game.
>
> The infringing material may be found at:
>
> http://www.piratebay.org/download.php/3238103/Sims%202.*******
>
> http://www.piratebay.org/download.php/3238222/The_Sims2_AlcoholClone-CLO
> NEGAME_Full.Release_%28exclusive_for_trackerwww.pr q.to%29.*******
>

Hello and thank you for contacting us. We have shut down the website in
question.

Oh wait, just kidding. We haven't, since the site in question is fully
legal. Unlike certain other countries, such as the one you're in, we have
sane copyright laws here. But we also have polar bears roaming the
streets and attacking people :-(.


> This unauthorized activity with respect to the distribution of EA's
> software products constitutes infringement of EA's intellectual property
> rights. EA enforces its intellectual property rights very aggressively
> by using every legal option available.

Please don't sue us right now, our lawyer is passed out in an alley from
too much moonshine, so please atleast wait until he's found and doesn't
have a huge hangover...

>
> As you are listed as the registrant for this website, EA demands that
> you immediately and permanently disable access to the aforementioned
> bit******* seeds for The Sims 2 and any in the future.

You're free to demand anything you want. So are we. We demand that you
cease and desist sending letters like this, since they're frivolous and
meaningless. Where should I send the bill for the consumed diskspace and
bandwidth?

> Thank you for your cooperation. If you have any questions concerning
> this matter, please contact us via e-mail at:
> piracy-online*ea.com.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> EA Law - IP Enforcement
> Electronic Arts Inc.
> piracy-online*ea.com <mailto:piracy2*ea.com>

Thank you for your entertainment. As with all other threats, we will
publish this one on http://static.************.org/legal/

//anakata

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Monseratto]

now for some entertainment:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Prosecutor drops one of the charges in Pirate Bay trial

The four people who run the site were now only charged with making films or music protected by intellectual copyright laws accessible to the public, prosecutor Haakan Roswall said during the second day of the trial, which is being broadcast live on Swedish public radio.

The second charge of copying films and music had been dropped, he said.

"The most serious aspect is to make an artistic work available to the public and if you do that, then that is more serious than the actual act of copying," Daniel Westman, a PhD student in information technology law at Stockholm University, told Swedish news agency TT

[ghosthunter]

If that's the case there, then perhaps money is better spent on the necessities of life first. That's what we do here. Being in the land of plenty doesn't change anything.

Hey, what I saved from buying expensive original DVDs and from avoiding second rate movies at the cinemas, I could pay my internet connection and have even more than just movies and videos at my finger tips.

I lived there (RP) for a time without the benefit of a computer or downloading movies/software and yet I had a great time going out and having fun.

Maybe because that time you were living in the RP, internet connectivity was more based on the telephone than on broadband?

Even then, my parents taught me stealing is wrong. I doubt that's changed over there.

Maybe that is where you and me are different. I don't consider downloading movies and other videos from the internet as piracy. I look at it as a shift in a global marketing and distribution system. If the music industry is embracing the download culture, I think the other industries can benefit more by embracing the movement than wasting time and money fighting it.

[Negus]

+1 to some of GH's views

Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails), He release an album for free and allowed fans to pay whatever they thought the digital album was worth.... the young internet community see this as the next musical distribution revolution. Afaik, Metallica and Radiohead followed suit but their effort was half-assed.

In the end, honesty system pa rin if you decide to delete it or not as Jun_aka_Pekto cited.

[A121]

If piracy has done something good, it narrowed down the digital divide between the third and the first world countries.

[rhuwrx]

I was able to talk to a pirated "dibidi" vendor, he said sales of his wares took a slight dip since those p2p sites got popular.

peace!

[Monseratto]

If piracy has done something good, it narrowed down the digital divide between the third and the first world countries.

You no longer have to wait months for the latest TV shows. Though you may have to wait for certain movies, mahirap makakita ng "clear" copy na "film-transferred" (Obvious na piratang kopya) kahit sa *******s hehehe.

[ghosthunter]

I was able to talk to a pirated "dibidi" vendor, he said sales of his wares took a slight dip since those p2p sites got popular.

peace!

Its the samething what happened to those video rental shops when pirated DVD/VCD became so rampant and popular.

Technology (and how people use/abuse it) moves on.