June 26, 2008

The Intend to Share is already a Criminal Act

Says the MPAA

"...the MPAA,...told Judge Davis that peer-to-peer users automatically should be liable for infringement. The only purpose for placing copyrighted works in the shared folder is, of course, to 'share,' by making those works available to countless other P2P networks," the MPAA wrote."

And more from the Wired blog: "You don't have to prove actual distribution. You need to prove there's works in the share folder, and that is distribution," said Joseph Geisman, MPAA's chief intellectual property attorney, as he described the so-called "making available" concept"

War is peace and peace is war. Right?

Jun 26, 2008 6:52:13 PM | EoC: The Studios

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