Raptrex
Mar 11 2005, 11:41 PM
| | QUOTE A reader writes:"A french appeal court ruled yesterday in favour of somebody who downloaded about 500 movies, on the ground that those were private copies, and that he didn't redistributed them, and that a tax was payed on blank media. This sets the huge precedent that P2P is legal over there. For the details, apparently no distinction was made on the method used to download the movies (upload issues) and the famous EUCD directive was even used by the defending lawyer."
that is crazy
go her yo |
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doom145
Mar 12 2005, 08:53 AM
QUOTE(Raptrex @ Mar 12 2005, 12:41 AM) I agree....its plain crazy, I mean the French people r supposed to be strict and they let movies to be downloaded!!!!!That is just unfair, why dont they do that in england and I would be very happy...lol.....but French government is going a bit of the hook by introducing this rule....   but its good for people who DO liv in france   
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Styx
Mar 12 2005, 10:35 AM
hey, why razz the french 4 that decision? i'd say that sets a precedent for similar action in other countries, which would benefit alot more people.
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millertime
Mar 12 2005, 01:35 PM
thats is really crazy. 500 movies? how big of a hard drive does that guy have geez. most movies take around 700 mb if you download them, or if you rip it from a dvd it takes a few gigs. can anybody find out those details??? lol
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snlildude87
Mar 12 2005, 06:05 PM
QUOTE(jmiller87 @ Mar 12 2005, 10:35 AM) thats is really crazy. 500 movies? how big of a hard drive does that guy have geez. most movies take around 700 mb if you download them, or if you rip it from a dvd it takes a few gigs. can anybody find out those details??? lol Well, I don't think they store ALL their movies on their hard drive. When I down...erm...rip legal movies...from a friend, the output is usually 700 MB which ends up on a CD. This is a reason why I'm considering moving to other countries because organizations like the Motion Pictures Association of America come after you...or at least I don't think they can.
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xboxrulz
Mar 13 2005, 05:09 PM
u think that's crazy? The Canadian Music Industry lost to the government in a court appeal to ban downloads on the Internet. Therefore, Canadians can download music without restrictions. xboxrulz
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snlildude87
Mar 13 2005, 09:10 PM
That's it, I'm officially moving to Canada according to what xboxrulz just said. Besides unrestricted downloading, Canada has more snow, and my uncle lives there.
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bjrn
Mar 13 2005, 10:54 PM
In the Netherlands you can make one copy of movies and music for personal use. But that's it. This means that things like downloading a movie from BitTorrent isn't legal since you are uploading content as well, and that's illegal. I'm guessing uploading while downloading (when using P2P apps) will be dealt with in France sometime soon.
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boyCradle
Mar 14 2005, 10:31 AM
wow! the court has spoken! and they said those downloads are legal. i don't know if i should happy about that or not. I ahve downloaded some songs but not movies. and those are 500 movies! personal i don't like the verdict, they should have convicted the guy. but reasoning out that because he bought the blank Cds which made him pay taxes is a little funny. hehehe
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Mario
Mar 14 2005, 12:53 PM
Lol.. owwaw. I moving to France and than to Canada. Wow, thats the first time i heard something like that. I thought other countries had certain rules about downloading music and movies. But i guess not. The music people and the movie makers are getting screwed really bad on this one.
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nol
May 30 2009, 02:20 PM
That is not right! I hate illegal pirating. Some things are ok, like I don't really think software should be made paid except for certain ones that a lot of time has been put into, but theres a lot of them now you have to pay $100+ for simple upgrades, which is just bullcrap. THe one thing I do not support though is illegally downloading of movies, and especially music. Music is my life, and if people keep downloading illegally, less and less songs are going to be coming out (we can already see this now). This is also partly why rap has turned so bad. They stopped caring about good quality songs if it might not even get much money for it, whereas they will get more money if they put together more, horrible songs. Ones that all say the same thing, but they found they will make more money that way, and that is all our fault. People who download music illegally, that is why we have so many problems here with the music crisis.
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sean
Apr 3 2005, 03:17 AM
As far as rights on P2P software and file-sharing networks, this might interest you: MGM v. GroksterThis is definitely a crucial case for the net-savvy everywhere.
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crystal
Apr 3 2005, 01:45 AM
If it happened in our country! I believe tha it will be accepted by most people! But I think it will never happen!
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JaVe
Apr 2 2005, 09:35 PM
I've went to france bfore and i hate it i mean everything is so depressing dark houses crumbled walls, i hate their language. But this is pretty cool.
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xboxrulz
Apr 2 2005, 06:18 PM
Tonic, there's nothing about a new law. The only thing is that the government is just revising the copyright law. Please read the following sentence: "courts and Copyright Boards support the proposition that downloading and uploading of music is legal" xboxrulz
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