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Furthermore, if it were, then you'd just be replacing one offense (copyright infringement) with another (distribution of obscene materials). Not sure whether t
by chimeracoder 15y ago
Furthermore, if it were, then you'd just be replacing one offense (copyright infringement) with another (distribution of obscene materials).
Not sure whether that's a net benefit - it may depend on the specific circumstances, but it's not exactly what I'd call Plan A as a lawyer.
- mikeryan 15y agoreplacing one offense (copyright infringement) with another (distribution of obscene materials). Except one is a civil matter the other is criminal and currently I don't think there's a ton of DA's interested attempting to prosecute everyone sharing porn on the internet.
- electromagnetic 15y agoThe police are fully within their rights to determine if a law is worth enforcing. Here in Ontario it's still on the books that if you purchase alcohol it has to be taken directly to the property it's going to be stored at. IIRC the law dates back to bootlegging days to prosecute the mafia shipping the alcohol down into the US. This isn't even mentioning the laws still on the books that got inherited from the British system.
- recoil 15y ago> British system Nitpick, but there's no such thing. You mean the English legal system. Scotland's legal system is completely different (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_law), as is that of Northern Ireland.
- electromagnetic 15y agoActually in Canada the law is inherited from England, Scotland and Ireland and IIRC is up to a judges discretion as to whether the common law applies. This is due to the fact that many of the people originally immigrating to Canada came from Scotland and Ireland.