3 ms·
With reference to the aggressive litigation-based attack philosophy of the publishing/recording/movie industry of your country, isn't it a bit risky to go ahead
by kshatrea 14y ago
With reference to the aggressive litigation-based attack philosophy of the publishing/recording/movie industry of your country, isn't it a bit risky to go ahead and write this?
If they go ahead and sue you for doing something (remembering the case of the RIAA suing someone and getting a $675k judgement), couldn't your blog be used against you in a case in court?
- RobAley 14y agoThe "They" would need to be the copyright holders or their agents, and as he wisely doesn't note the particular books he did this with, there is likely no one able to take him to civil court. It appears he hasn't done this commercially, so I don't think there would be a case for a criminal prosecution either.
- ljf 14y agoAFAIK most of those that have been sued have been those who /share/ copied material. I don't (think) anyone has ever been sued for downloading copyrighted material from a file host, but they have from bit-torrent, as when you DL from a .torrent file you are also sharing the file back out to other users. The activities described do break the copyright terms in the books, but as long as he didn't share them it's unlikely that anyone would go after him, and if they did it's unlikely that they would make such a high fine stick. The fine is supposed to cover the potential for lost earnings, so in this case he'd likely be looking at a fine of 2k or less. But I'm no lawyer!