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So if something is too much work to acquire, we are allowed to obtain content illegally? I'm a little surprised Fred is openly admitting that he committed a cri
by orky56 16y ago
So if something is too much work to acquire, we are allowed to obtain content illegally? I'm a little surprised Fred is openly admitting that he committed a crime. Isn't this enough for the authorities to pursue legal action?
The fact that the content is more expensive or harder to get is all the more reason to give up. This is not a moment of failure. It is a warning and a notice that hurdles have been set to prevent acquisition.
- steveklabnik 16y ago> Isn't this enough for the authorities to pursue legal action? Where's the actual evidence? You'd have to actually find his IP address downloading something from somewhere.
- orky56 16y agoHow about having enough evidence to pursue a warrant? Taking a big name to trial over something like this might actually be worth their effort.
- steveklabnik 16y agoAssuming he used Bittorrent, how are you going to find the logs? Where was the torrent from? Nobody observed him actually doing it... I'm pretty sure that the evidence would be lost in the aether by now, but I'm no security expert...
- jrwoodruff 16y agoWhat would they (in reality) do? Make him pay for the music? Isn't that what he wanted to do in the first place? Maybe this is the new economic mode for music...