UK Court Dismisses Yet Another Bogus Criminal Lawsuit Against Torrent Tracker Admins
from the and-yet-they'll-do-it-again dept
Just about a year ago, a court in the UK found OiNK's operator, Alan Ellis, not guilty of criminal charges for running the community. Even though plenty of people had pointed out from the very beginning that it was crazy to charge Ellis with criminal charges for actions by people in the community, prosecutors still went through with it. What was even more amazing is that they continued to try to do the same thing to others as well. In the summer of 2009, we wrote about how UK police arrested the operator of the FileSoup community based entirely on claims by the entertainment industry, which showed a near total lack of understanding of the basic technology at play. It turns out that law enforcement pushed forward with the case, despite the fact that they did no investigating on their own and simply accepted the industry's claims as fact, despite numerous errors. Thankfully, the courts recognized all of this and noted that these criminal charges probably never should have been brought and dropped the case against two of the admins of the site. At what point do law enforcement folks realize that the entertainment industry is a biased party and that you can't just accept everything they say as fact?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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Why?
Because mostly, copyright is a jumble of laws that are confusing, vague and I would say inappropriate, people didn't care before because who really take seriously any actor or director?
Unless of course you are talking U.S. which elected a number of celebrities because they were...well celebreties.
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Were the defendants compensated for their trouble?
Also, we need to have different standards for corporate-people vs human-people. The corporate person needs to meet a much higher standard day in and out on all matters.
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Face The FACT
Probably around the same time that these industries stop calling themselves FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft)
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and start calling themselves
FICTION
Federation of Idiots Continually Trying to Introduce Obnoxious New (laws)
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Bogus Criminal Lawsuit Against filesharing site Admins
From the moment the police threatened to break down my front door, barged into my home and then arrested me 18 months ago, they have continuingly and consistently ignored the procedures set out in PACE, both the police and FACT have harrassed and fobbed me off with excuses or simply ignored every inquiry I've made about this case throughout.
They have not even bothered to investigate my official IPCC complaints about the police actions and inactions and basically just put me through as much crap as they could, it has without question, been totally vexatious to the extreme.
The British "fair" judicial system ...bah!
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@ Steve, Congrats mate been a long time coming.
All the best,
Planespotter, known as eazbak in other circles ;)
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One of the benefits of living in a supposedly free society is that due process is followed and the average citizen has protection from unfair police actions that would be acceptable in a totalitarian state. One of the downsides of living in a free society is that those who would do wrong are free to do so, unless prosecuted under the law. When that happens the accused are not guilty until found guilty by a court of law.
I'm sorry that living in a free society offends your own values so much.
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I know that from having numerous relatives in law enforcement and them being disgusted with that fact.
We really need to realize that cops are humans just like the rest of us and they will NOT always tell the truth when they are asked.
In fact, outside of a court of law, they are ALLOWED to lie to you! How damned crazy is that? They are allowed to LIE and try to get you to admit something using falsified evidence.
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So I'm wondering is the US on the 301 report?
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