I cannot understand why people pay to watch films, on a computer, when there are dozens of sites, to which you can go, to watch them, FREE. But it's illegal, I hear you shout!! So is driving at 32 mph in a 30 mph zone and who cares about that??
There is a new theory going the rounds on the internet, as yet untested in the Courts, which goes like this......
Yes, the folk who make the film are due copyrights, performing rights and blah blah. But you do not download the film. You download a file which contains a copy of that film. So the person who copied is due the payments. He/she owns the file, illegal or otherwise and can do as they wish with it. How does the downloader known that the file owner has not paid?
So how can anybody be charged with downloading a film, when in truth they are downloading a file!! The owner ,of the file,may be quite happy to display the file, that they own and have made. The copyright may be for the Dirty Dozen, a movie by blah but their file may be entitled the Dirty Dozen from Jimmy Wilson of Quebec. That is then the file title and completely different in any Civil Law.
By interjecting tor into the process it makes things difficult to trace, as the signal is split into six outbound and six inbound. The outgoing six are not the same as the incoming six. This continually beat the Chinese Government, so it must be quite good.
A woman, in Ayrshire, recently, got caught with gazzilions of songs downloaded and got a community care order or something. She was making up playlists and selling them. So rather, obviously, the question to publicans became, where did you get that music which is playing? They had music playing but were not registered with the performing rights association.
I ran across them years ago when I was a roadie with a band. The PRA had come to the club and demanded registration and payment for each song played by all of the bands. I advised the club that we changed the odd word here and there and so any song that was sung was not the same as the original and so not subject to copyright. Well that started a War. So the PRA wanted a Court case, which the club did not fancy. So we had a sheet to fill in.
Now they can only claim money for songs under a certain age, so I filled in a load of old music hall tunes and that was sent off, for them, to issue an invoice to the club. They couldn't do so and that was the end of that. Every single system set up by one man can be screwed by another one.
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