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What To Do If Prosecuted For Sharing Culture: STFU
- rdw 14y agoThe advice to run your wifi router unencrypted is not right. Too much of a security risk, too much chance of abuse in a city. It may reduce the chance of successful prosecution of copyright infringement, but it seems like it opens you to being implicated for more serious crimes.
- greenyoda 14y agoI've read at least one news story (sorry, forgot the details) of a guy who had a SWAT team break down his door because someone had used his open Wi-Fi router to send a threatening message. You could also get the police at your door if your neighbor (or someone driving by in a car) uses your Wi-Fi to visit a child porn site, or something like that. Still, not talking to the police seems to be good advice. For more information on that, see this video: "Don't Talk to the Police" by Professor James Duane (27:25) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4097602514885833865 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4097602514885833865
- jdhopeunique 14y agoIn some states you are required to identify yourself and a recent court ruling showed that merely remaining silence was not enough to invoke one's right to silence. One must paradoxically, speak up to have the right to remain silent. Here are 2 relevant links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_and_Identify_statutes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_and_Identify_statutes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_silence#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_silence#United_States
- gwillen 14y agoI've never seen this as especially paradoxical. As long as you choose not to speak, you are free to remain silent. As soon as you start speaking, you are choosing to speak, and not be silent. The only effect of verbally invoking your right to remain silent, as far as I'm aware, is that the police have to stop interrogating you. It would make sense for the police to have to stop after you refuse to answer their questions for some defined period, but it also makes sense (and this is more or less the reasoning of the court as I understand it) to say that, while you are free to be silent, the cops are free to keep asking questions unless you affirmatively indicate your desire that they stop. The main problem remaining, I think, is the fact that people do not know they can so ask.
- alttab 14y agoSharing culture? Copyright monopoly? What the hell is this article?
- patdennis 14y agoThe language comes from a desire to forward an agenda. You find the same pattern of strange little phrases in most ideologically self-reinforcing political communities.
- alttab 14y agoYeah I figured as much. I don't consider pirating movies 'sharing culture', and I don't think 'Copyright Monopoly' is accurate or well-informed.
- jack-r-abbit 14y agoI get the impression someone is trying to replace that nasty old piracy word with something that sounds much more like a verbal fuzzy kitten. I think Shakespeare put it best: What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet
- oofabz 14y agoNo matter what you're being prosecuted for, it's always a good idea to STFU. Police can and do lie to extract information from you. They will make it seem like the case against you is ironclad and if you cooperate they will go easy on you. It's all bullshit, they do not have your interests at heart. Their only goal is to obtain a conviction and they see you as the enemy. You should not discuss ANYTHING with them until you talk to a lawyer.
- zoowar 14y agoIf we learned anything from the TV show Cops, this is it.