starcraft.man
August 28th, 2007, 04:04 AM
Well, the MPAA has finally done the natural next step in their righteous crusade against the rampant bazillion pirates out there. They don't want to actually prove people are doing something wrong or even that copyright violation is occurring (nor try and offer a serious competitor to digital p2p distribution for people to pay). Instead it appears extortion is their new game.
Article (http://torrentfreak.com/getamnestycom-mpaa-extortion-at-its-finest/) (you can likely find other sources if you don't like torrent freak, it's pretty good most of the time I find).
Basically the MPAA partnered with Nexicon (who are an IP watchdog service from what I see quickly on their site. I imagine they trawl trackers and seed traps and a bunch of other semi-legit means...) to form GetAmnesty.com (http://www.getamnesty.com/). I think you'd be best served by having a nice look at their site. I will quote the part I find best:
If you receive a notice that means that we have evidence of you infringing a copyright holder that we represent. Please stop and consider what such a paper trail could do to one’s future. We understand that this notice may come as a bit of a surprise to you, but we sincerely believe that signing our agreement is in your best interest. (I added effect)
Add to the quote the glaring FBI logo (at top) with the maximum penalties applicable and you get serious intimidation. This just seems ludicrous to me. They are summarily saying (maybe not outright, but inferring in their legal notices and I'm sure people will read it as such) people are guilty (without proving things in court or showing their proof at all to guilty party/guardians) and attempting to coerce these folk into voiding their rights to trial by settling X dollars (I've no idea how they come to the amounts) to make it go away. Anyone else have a problem with this?
What's worse is I can just imagine that soon the MPAA will hop up and down like a raving kid and go "LOOK! These people are paying us and admitting their guilty, they must have done something wrong and piracy must be rampant all over bit torrent. Let's legislate a bigger more hostile fix!"
Thoughts anyone? I'm in Canada but still this just burns me up that they get to treat people like this... Should the MPAA change their acronym to MOB or MAFIA? Something else? Oh and let's not get into the whole "is p2p violating copyright/illegal" debate, leave that for another thread (we already had one as a matter of fact). Discuss away...
Article (http://torrentfreak.com/getamnestycom-mpaa-extortion-at-its-finest/) (you can likely find other sources if you don't like torrent freak, it's pretty good most of the time I find).
Basically the MPAA partnered with Nexicon (who are an IP watchdog service from what I see quickly on their site. I imagine they trawl trackers and seed traps and a bunch of other semi-legit means...) to form GetAmnesty.com (http://www.getamnesty.com/). I think you'd be best served by having a nice look at their site. I will quote the part I find best:
If you receive a notice that means that we have evidence of you infringing a copyright holder that we represent. Please stop and consider what such a paper trail could do to one’s future. We understand that this notice may come as a bit of a surprise to you, but we sincerely believe that signing our agreement is in your best interest. (I added effect)
Add to the quote the glaring FBI logo (at top) with the maximum penalties applicable and you get serious intimidation. This just seems ludicrous to me. They are summarily saying (maybe not outright, but inferring in their legal notices and I'm sure people will read it as such) people are guilty (without proving things in court or showing their proof at all to guilty party/guardians) and attempting to coerce these folk into voiding their rights to trial by settling X dollars (I've no idea how they come to the amounts) to make it go away. Anyone else have a problem with this?
What's worse is I can just imagine that soon the MPAA will hop up and down like a raving kid and go "LOOK! These people are paying us and admitting their guilty, they must have done something wrong and piracy must be rampant all over bit torrent. Let's legislate a bigger more hostile fix!"
Thoughts anyone? I'm in Canada but still this just burns me up that they get to treat people like this... Should the MPAA change their acronym to MOB or MAFIA? Something else? Oh and let's not get into the whole "is p2p violating copyright/illegal" debate, leave that for another thread (we already had one as a matter of fact). Discuss away...