NBC Universal Warns File-Sharers of Criminal Prosecution

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NBC Universal has come up with a different way of cutting off your internet after your "six strikes" are up...by fining you to death or sending you to jail. :D

NBC Universal is one of the copyright holders involved in the “six strikes” copyright alert system but the warnings it sends out to subscribers of non-participating ISPs stand in stark contrast to the educational approach of the program. A threatening email warns the alleged file-sharers that they risk substantial monetary damages, criminal prosecution and Internet disconnections.
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Rip off a corporation, you'll go to jail and pay for it by being their slave for life.

Get ripped off by a corporation and they pay out in a class action lawsuit, you get $20.

What the hell is wrong with this picture?
 
travanx said:
What do I get for constantly having NBC go out on my cable box?
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Ask your cable provider... they will reimburse you for outages but you won't be happy with the amount you get.

Outages on you cable isn't NBC's fault...
 
nbc

a network whose content I can pick up free over the air anytime I want with a 99 cent antenna.....


7 Proxies, all that, good luck
 
Demon10000 said:
Outages on you cable isn't NBC's fault...
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Last time I checked, Comcast has NBC's logo now. So yeah, it kinda is their fault.

Not to mention the conflict of interest with a broadcaster owning the cable company...
 
Yeah problem is that NBC Universal or no other company can bring forth criminal charges against you... that's not how it works. They want some of that RIAA/MPAA type lawsuit money. Plus they feel it's perfectly fine to sue someone for downloading something which they show for free on TV to anyone with an antenna which can be recorded and saved for later viewing.
 
UrielDagda said:
Rip off a corporation, you'll go to jail and pay for it by being their slave for life.

Get ripped off by a corporation and they pay out in a class action lawsuit, you get $20.

What the hell is wrong with this picture?
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Oh, that's an easy one! The individual being awarded in the class action lawsuit should have opted out and pursued litigation independently.
 
CreepyUncleGoogle said:
Oh, that's an easy one! The individual being awarded in the class action lawsuit should have opted out and pursued litigation independently.
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I have always been curious has that worked out well for anyone going that route? Maybe I can try taking NBC to small claims court for not allowing my to receive their feed through my cable box? If big companies want to go after the wrong guy and win, I am sure I could go after the wrong ones too.
 
travanx said:
I have always been curious has that worked out well for anyone going that route? Maybe I can try taking NBC to small claims court for not allowing my to receive their feed through my cable box? If big companies want to go after the wrong guy and win, I am sure I could go after the wrong ones too.
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Well, on a serious note, cases like that are never a "yes, you'll win" or "no, you'll lose" sort of thing. Each court is supposed to independently consider the facts and circumstances of the matter and interpert the law along with determining what damages (if any) are required to right a wrong. You could argue that, because something already was judged against a company in a class action suit, there's credibility added to suing on your own. If there's a good chance at winning a case, the next thing to consider is what you'd get back out of pressing your own lawsuit and whether or not reasonable damages awarded would make it worth the effort pursuing them. There's also the risk of a counter claim to cover the other party's legal costs in the event that you lose.
 
A Corporation dictating how the government will proceed against a citizen... that strike any one else as backwards...
 
rand4505 said:
A Corporation dictating how the government will proceed against a citizen... that strike any one else as backwards...
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Well, corporations have their own body that drafts legislation, after all.. Then they donate tons of money to lawmakers to pass it into law.
 
sfsuphysics said:
Yeah problem is that NBC Universal or no other company can bring forth criminal charges against you... that's not how it works. They want some of that RIAA/MPAA type lawsuit money. Plus they feel it's perfectly fine to sue someone for downloading something which they show for free on TV to anyone with an antenna which can be recorded and saved for later viewing.
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This. How the fuck do you go after somebody for content that is free over the air?
 
rand4505 said:
A Corporation dictating how the government will proceed against a citizen... that strike any one else as backwards...
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Well corporations are people too... well except how you tax them... and money is speech, and they have constitutional rights to free speech just like everyone else, just ask the Supreme Court! :rolleyes:
 
NBC universal is talking out of their asses. comcast will not screw over its subscriber base the second they did anything that NBC universal is saying people would flee the sinking ship
 
Here's the surprising truth: we know how to do our jobs. The popular image of the games critic is still one of nerdy amateurs, slick with fanboy flopsweat and palpitating at the thought of getting paid to play games, spurting their half-baked thoughts across whatever blog or content aggregator will have them. And, okay, fair enough, that does happen.
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Thing is those angry amateurs tend to be more accurate then anything from professionals. It's laughable that anyone if the past 15 years has ever listened to game reviews. It's a joke.

If James would review new games, I'd freakin listen. Even though his reviews are comedy and more about theater then an actual review. In the end though, much more accurate then anything profession reviews have.
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But the vast majority of the specialist press is made up of mature, experienced professionals who take our jobs - frivolous though they may be in the grand scheme of things - seriously enough to think and care about what we write.
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The vast majority of game reviews use a scale of 1 - 10, 10 being the highest. Yet rarely do any games see less then 7, if ever. So essentially the way everyone else sees it, 7 is bad and 10 is good. Eight is ok and 9 is above average. Even then, it depends on how much dick sucking the reviewer is doing. It's a toally biased and conflict of interest review.

Nobody cares about game reviews anymore. They either go by word of mouth, or they watch a video of the game and come to their own conclusion. Game reviewers need to learn to grow some balls and start telling it how it is.
 
Criminal prosecution? Really? Are they lying to people or is this possible over there?
 
dgz said:
Criminal prosecution? Really? Are they lying to people or is this possible over there?
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lol....Here lies the truth coated in lye....RIP

Truth is a hard thing to come by.
 
sfsuphysics said:
Plus they feel it's perfectly fine to sue someone for downloading something which they show for free on TV to anyone with an antenna which can be recorded and saved for later viewing.
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They make their money from commercials and DVD sales. P2P copies don't have commercials.
 
sfsuphysics said:
Well corporations are people too... well except how you tax them... and money is speech, and they have constitutional rights to free speech just like everyone else, just ask the Supreme Court! :rolleyes:
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And corporations can't go to jail. Or be punished in any way except having some of their money taken.

You know, the more you think about it, the more it looks like corporations really AREN'T that much like people.
 
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