File-Sharers Will Not Be Held Liable For Piracy

[c3141hf]

Common sense would dictate that illegal file sharing/downloading would be considered theft and not intellectual property rights piracy. People are not stealing the source code and trying to sell the content as their own, they are downloading copies of stuff to watch and likely delete when done with it.

Not even the state you worship considers copying theft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowling_v._United_States_(1985)

The phonorecords in question were not "stolen, converted or taken by fraud" for purposes of [section] 2314. The section's language clearly contemplates a physical identity between the items unlawfully obtained and those eventually transported, and hence some prior physical taking of the subject goods. Since the statutorily defined property rights of a copyright holder have a character distinct from the possessory interest of the owner of simple "goods, wares, [or] merchandise," interference with copyright does not easily equate with theft, conversion, or fraud. The infringer of a copyright does not assume physical control over the copyright nor wholly deprive its owner of its use. Infringement implicates a more complex set of property interests than does run-of-the-mill theft, conversion, or fraud.

 

[Red Falcon]

I don't get why you keep insisting on pushing this natural rights illusion. Rights are a human creation and exist exclusively because humans have a sense of self entitlement that they'd like to see either become a reality or be maintained if already present. Regardless of which set of humans creates them it takes humans to invent and attempt to enforce them on either themselves or one another. Without humans there are no rights therefore they do not occur naturally. Therefore, any group of people that gets together and insists their idea of rights is more correct is imposing their will via force on an individual who disagrees. This can be a condition caused by a currently existing state entity or a set of wackos like the group in which you place your faith. Either way, regardless of what set of people comes into power, they force their will on everyone else and are no different than the status quo aside from applying a different spin on their lunatic ideas than the last group that was in power.

This is exactly why a society based on might-makes-right does not work and why North Korea is in the state it is in, and also one of the many reasons the Soviet Union collapsed.
Russia realized that communism (aka might-makes-right) doesn't work, and is thus changing things to shift away from those views.

Believe me, I would much rather live in a 2013 Russia than a 1985 Soviet Union.
omg, or the DDR... bleck!

This is the whole reason the Bill of Rights was put in place in the US, to prevent this kind of thing from happening.
But whatever, if invidividuals enjoy living with those kinds of "rights", then I suppose they would also have no problem living under the old-school ☭.

Join the red party and fight FOR STALLLIIIINNNN!!!!

 

[Passenger57]

OK, they're not Soviets anymore but...In Soviet Russia, files share YOU!

 

[Red Falcon]

^ LOL

 

[beowulf7]

You sound like a self-entitled crook who thinks he should be able to take or use anything that isn't nailed down, with no idea of the consequences of his actions nor any moral fiber to care.

If that helps you sleep better at night, Mr. MPAA/RIAA guy.