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Old 09-21-2010, 08:44 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by spanky View Post
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-va...rcement-online

"A bipartisan bill unveiled Monday would make it easier for the Justice Department to shut down websites that traffic pirated music, movies and counterfeit goods."
It has to come, too many big companies are losing too much money to let it carry on.

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Originally Posted by tiger View Post
There are going to be a lot more of these that's for sure. I'm wondering why you couldn't do the same thing with people downloading videos on a tube site. Would be a good excuse to subpoena the records of the tube site in question as well.
Don't know about downloading as most just watch. Hitting the uploaders is IMO the key. Once we know who they are we can milk them. The chink in Tubes armor is the part of the DMCA that says they don't monitor or control the content.

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Originally Posted by Alky View Post
It'll be interesting to see if some law isn't made regarding suing thousands of people with the intention of just settling.

Someone went after the RIAA, trying to get them for racketeering... I don't think anything ever came of it, but this is sure as hell going to start flooding the hell out of the court systems.
Then companies like Acacia would be well fucked.
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