Three Strikes Rejected In Spain
from the another-one-down dept
It seems like the recording industry's grand plan to get ISPs to be their copyright police isn't getting very far. Consumer and legal backlash around the world seems to have stopped it cold. The latest is in Spain, where the entire concept of a three strikes regime has been taken off the table. Instead, the plan in Spain is to go after file sharing sites and services -- as we've seen them do a lot lately. The only problem? Spanish courts have found both that personal, non-commercial file sharing is legal and that sites that are merely pointing to content are not liable for whether or not the content is infringing.
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Maybe France..?
However, I believe that they will have a very difficult time saying no to Three Strikes.
But, in the off chance situation that they did say "NO", we'd probably have to clean up the Statue Of Liberty, agree to not call French Fries Freedom Fries, finally decide on aluminum versus copper wiring, and also figure some other things out regarding properties of Campaigns and Cogniacs.
Oh the horror.
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I like the three strikes
OK so move to a different tracker, server, Beef up security, You get caught again and receive another email.
Ok its a fair cop I will knock it on the head for a while.
As it stands at the minute your first and last warning that you have been caught is a demand for payment well into thousands of £/$, with very little possibility of fighting them off. (Unless you truly haven't been sharing)
I for one would rather get a tap on the shoulder/word to the wise/heads up/forewarned...
Call it what you will but always better than a summons
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Re: I like the three strikes
Should innocent teleworkers and home business owners lose their livelihoods because someone managed to spoof their IP addresses?
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I don't mean people who go SODDI. Actual truly not guilty.
I suspect the error rate is about the same as an other legal action taken (including speeding tickets). Perfection isn't always possible, except on Techdirt.
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zing!
well that's it boys, the jig is up, time to shut the whole thing down. we had a good run. it was fun while it lasted.
hey mike, be remember to turn the lights off on your way out.
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Unless by "just plain guilty" you mean everyone who has settled, which there really are no proven statistics for.
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IMHO, if one innocent person has their internet connection removed due to a false allegation, it's too many. Especially as some people depend on the internet connection for work. Why should my home business get destroyed by a false allegation just to "protect" the livelihoods of the RIAA?
"I suspect the error rate is about the same as an other legal action taken (including speeding tickets)."
Having your internet connection removed - especially if your livelihood depends on it - is a very different thing to getting a speeding ticket. So, the standard applied to this three strikes idea should be much higher, especially since the RIAA only have something as flimsy as an easily-spoofed IP address to prove things.
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Three Strike for the RIAA
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Three Strike for the RIAA
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very far?
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very far?
eircom anyone? sadly they've been quite intimidatingly successful in ireland. and while it's not a kick-you-off environment in the u.k., it's still very burdensome and anti-consumer with deep surveillance and throttling.
comcast, brein, gema, netherlands anti-piracy against mininova, hadopi, yeah all different prongs of the same attack against consumers, customers, fans though.
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