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castlebravo404@lemmynsfw.com 5 months agoYou might not have to pay damages. But you’re probably going to have to pay a hefty legal fee not to pay damages.
Comment on Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy.
castlebravo404@lemmynsfw.com 5 months agoYou might not have to pay damages. But you’re probably going to have to pay a hefty legal fee not to pay damages.
Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Copyright laws are actually very difficult to enforce when it comes to digital piracy. You have to prove loss of profit among other things.
Then, who do you sue? The person downloading the product? The person hosting the product? The person providing a link to the hosted data? The person providing a platform for people to link things? The person who allows their platform to federate with another platform that does?
If we’re talking about P2P sharing, then in a way no one is hosting the data.
In Australia when the Dallas Buyers Club case was being looked at, the studio was asking for a lot of money. Basically a big fat fine to be paid. The judge threw it out saying that the only reasonable damages for one person to pay would be the cost of the DVD because that was the value of the “theft”.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You dont have to enforce it.
You just have to drown people in legal bills and force them into compliance with risk of bankruptcy.
Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I don’t know enough about law to know how that does or does not work, but it that’s possible then any entity with enough money can actively bankrupt anyone they want, and it won’t have anything to do with why. If that’s true could you not just sue someone by making stuff up and force them to prove you made it up?
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yup corrupt companies likely do it all the time. Technically it’s perjury to lie in a court but outside of being caught or going to hell it’s not much of a deterrent.
There isn’t much recourse against that other than trying to skirt detection by these companies (not possible or feasible in the long term) or to be in a country that is strongly against or an enemy of the one(s) those companies are in or allied with.
anarchy79@lemmy.world 5 months ago
thepiratebay.org is still up
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Ah yes, the pirate bay, the first stop for anyone wanting to download a file thats probably a virus.