Taiwan Declares File Sharing App Illegal
from the not-just-in-sweden dept
While everyone's been focused on The Pirate Bay trial in Sweden, who knew something similar was happening in Taiwan? Michael Scott points us to the news that a Taiwanese court has found the file sharing app Foxy to be illegal. There's not much in the way of details, other than to suggest that the company behind Foxy has shut down. The report also notes that some other file sharing services in Taiwan have been sued -- but one was "cleared of charges because it merely provided a way to transfer information, images, videos and text." Isn't that what most file sharing apps do?Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Windows contributes to copyright infringement
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Umm....
Isn't that what the *internet* does?
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no no
See it says transfer ... so it goes from one computer to another and the original is erased. Most file sharing apps illegally reorient the little magnetic bits on your hard drive to COPY what the other person has. That is unacceptable.
/sarcasm
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Whew. I almost had brain aneurysm reading your post. The /sarcasm was a wise choice. :)
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Stupid Courts
Thank god the internet developed when it did with the very little oversight that it did. Otherwise we would have none of the internet freedoms we do today.
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