Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!c03.atl99!sjc1.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!news.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Kevin Wayne Williams Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Scanlation Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 08:23:17 -0700 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <10ke375se2q0a6e@news.supernews.com> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 X-Accept-Language: ja, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <73fde4f0.0408130544.52ad72e0@posting.google.com> <10k4kp397dcepaa@corp.supernews.com> <4142D082.FD722C3E@yahoo.co.jp> <4143E5EC.63000AC2@yahoo.co.jp> <10k8j9cqpncclca@news.supernews.com> <4144545B.9DDC06E5@yahoo.co.jp> <10k8n7gen6r8pcc@news.supernews.com> <414467CA.C9046F8A@yahoo.co.jp> <10k8s8k3r31daba@news.supernews.com> <4144755A.65CBC262@yahoo.co.jp> <2qjkg9Fvt0tkU14@uni-berlin.de> <10k9h2cev8lf9c1@news.supernews.com> <2qk7l7Fvt0tkU16@uni-berlin.de> <10k9rqbn5f48bf2@news.supernews.com> <2qkcpoFvt0tkU20@uni-berlin.de> <41450D69.540ED3DC@yahoo.co.jp> <2qkoohFvt0tkU21@uni-berlin.de> <4145A4BE.67183D1@yahoo.co.jp> <2qm68fFvt0tkU23@uni-berlin.de> <41462153.A9F97EA6@yahoo.co.jp> <2qmuscFvt0tkU28@uni-berlin.de> <10kdtqa745q862b@news.supernews.com> <4146F9B8.E2B71C8D@yahoo.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <4146F9B8.E2B71C8D@yahoo.co.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 34 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:18362 Eric Takabayashi wrote: > Kevin Wayne Williams wrote: > > >>>The entertainment companies are being harsh to make examples of people. >> >>Which was the point I tripped over my own feet trying to make the last >>time this topic came up. We don't treat most copyright infringement as a >>criminal offense, which puts the entertainment industry in a really >>nasty position. With shoplifting, the police at least pretend to care, >>and will run the kid through the police station and try frighten him out >>of repeating it. With major theft of physical goods, they will undertake >>criminal prosecution, which makes winning the later civil case for >>damages much easier. With file swapping, you get kids "infringing" a >>half-million dollars in music, and nothing happening to them unless the >>entertainment industry sues. With physical goods, little Johnny would be >>on the rock-pile, and mom and dad would be locked up as accessories. We >>have placed the burden of law-enforcement on private companies, who have >>to finance the investigation and prosecution on their own behalf, and >>then wonder why they act so ruthlessly. We haven't given them much of a >>choice. The police aren't able to act, the criminal courts aren't able >>to act, the legislatures won't pass corrective legislation to equate >>copyright infringment with theft. > > > So what was that old news story? > > http://tinyurl.com/7xx2b I'll have to research the actual text of the law ... it would make me very happy if the Congress legally equated copyright infringement with theft. KWW