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> Distributed systems shift that legal liability directly to viewers. For what it's worth: France tried suing people using bittorrent to download illegally wi
by progval 6y ago
> Distributed systems shift that legal liability directly to viewers.
For what it's worth:
France tried suing people using bittorrent to download illegally with the Hadopi law from 2009 to 2020 (it was ruled unconstitutional in May, because of a lack of judiciary oversight).
It cost between 5 to 10M€ every year, and resulted in only 87k€ in fines total. So not a huge success.
- kmeisthax 6y agoIn America, we had a company whose business model was to make fake porn, upload it to BitTorrent, and then sue anyone in the swarm. It actually worked for a while - the only illegal part of this is that they lied about uploading the content to get around implied license arguments. (That and the fact that they made their lawyer drink himself to death, but that's not material to the scam.) There's other companies clogging up court dockets with similar infringement lawsuits against John Does to get access to expedited discovery. This shit is profitable enough that any video sharing service needs to either avoid legal liability for it's users or find a way to prevent copyright holders from gathering evidence from them.
- viraptor 6y agoDoes it matter for the video sharing sites in the US? DMCA gives them a pretty good format - immediate block and forward the notice to the uploader and they're free of pretty much any responsibility.