Porn Studios Sue 10,000 Korean File Sharers
from the that'll-work dept
Apparently some porn studios haven't realized what a disaster the RIAA's "sue 'em all" strategy has been. A bunch of US- and Japan-based porn studios have supposedly decided to sue 10,000 individuals in South Korea for uploading unauthorized porn. Do they actually think this will help their business models? On top of this, they're asking the police to investigate as well, hoping to get some of the lawsuits to lead to jailtime. I'm sure that South Korean citizens are happy their gov't signed a "free trade" agreement with the US that included a bunch of provisions put there by US entertainment industry lobbyists, resulting in these strict new copyright laws.
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I would. The idea of standing in my own defense in front of a white-haired female judge and a jury of my peers, introducing defense exhibit after defense exhibit of just the dirtiest, most filthiest hardcore monkey sex you've ever seen is highly appealing to me.
"Your Honor, I would like to instruct the court stenographer to slow the video down to 4x slow motion, if I may. Note, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the way that the balls slap in an elastic manner off of the starfish. And your honor, if it please the court, I'd like it on the record that the technique you are seeing is the Double Fish Hook. Please your Honor, instruct juror number four, yes the Mormon woman, instruct to cease her vomitting or I must insist on a mistrial..."
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Nothing like telling your customers "we can and will out you publicly, if we feel like it".
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Seriously, the more you know, the funnier things are.
I suspect God is laughing all the time, because she knows it all. ;P
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Keep it up, Dark Helmet! You're the only one I know who regularly tries to be funny on TechDirt and actually succeeds.
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...Particularly if it's his "buffer face"...
I just downloaded in my pants....
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Oh, I am, I assure you...
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Thank you.
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Commercial pirates
But, sure enough, if you go actually read the article, they mention about 80 web sites also being sued.
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They're in for a bit of a shock
But they're not equally distributed. In particular, Korea "enjoys" a particularly large concentration of them. (It's by no means the only country disproportionately represented.) The relevance to this case is that there's no way to know which systems involved were doing so (a) under the control of their former owners, the people whose desks they're on or (b) under the control of their new owners, the people who control them now. So -- at minimum -- they're going to need to perform forensic-grade examinations on every computer system involved.
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Shakow!
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The government doesn't want its people furthering the poison that porn represents to their nationalistic ideals, so they're probably allowing the porn industry to go through with these lawsuits. Otherwise there's no way the government would let this happen, as they are *extremely* protective of their citizens.
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The government doesn't want its people furthering the poison that porn represents to their nationalistic ideals, so they're probably allowing the porn industry to go through with these lawsuits. Otherwise there's no way the government would let this happen, as they are *extremely* protective of their citizens.
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> English news site. My guess is this will be dismissed. Porn is illegal here
> and you can't sue someone who's stealing from a business that is illegal. It's
> not on the same level as suing a heroin supplier for cutting heroin, but it
> has the same odds in court.
Just had a brilliant idea for getting rid of RIAA shenanigans.... make music illegal!
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