So then... 'bout those torrents?

[iJosh]

Why did aXXo have to stop uploading again =(

His DvDRips are aweomse.

 

[Captain_Caveman]

http://www.google.com/cse?cx=003849996876419856805:erhhdbygrma&ie=UTF-8&q=&sa=Search

of course they aren't suing google though

 

[midpipps]

http://www.google.com/cse?cx=003849996876419856805:erhhdbygrma&ie=UTF-8&q=&sa=Search

of course they aren't suing google though

Yes but if asked google will remove links to "copyright" infringing torrents or others.

 

[DarkMessiah]

.torrent files are not illegal, nor is the BitTorrent protocol, or any other peer-to-peer file sharing protocol. .torrent files do not contain any information that is illegal either.

 

[Glerken]

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Mmhm, we should just go back to Hammurabi's code.
Much more simple.

 

[Lavi]

... I downloaded from PirateBay just yesterday XD!

 

[IxionIndustries]

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Mmhm, we should just go back to Hammurabi's code.
Much more simple.

Eeeexactly.. But do people listen? No..

 

[Seydaman]

Here's the bigger question: Do I care.

MmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmNO.
Who cares if it's against the law? Laws are pointless.

In that case I should go and kill you now.

Besides, I hardly believe this really is the bigger question to others :]

do you know the purpose of laws? it was rationalized long ago that laws would prevent chaos and allow people to live better and fuller lives.

 

[Seydaman]

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Mmhm, we should just go back to Hammurabi's code.
Much more simple.

Eeeexactly.. But do people listen? No..

god is code was so good and simple! doesn't mean i'll stop braking it...

 

[Seydaman]

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Mmhm, we should just go back to Hammurabi's code.
Much more simple.

Seriously, when I learned about it, I was like "This is the greatest idea ever."
My second thought was "Why aren't we following this anymore?"

god is code was so good and simple! doesn't mean i'll stop braking it...

Most of "his" laws involve not straying from the path, or whatever.

Actually, I don't remember the Commandments.
Nor do I care to.

just to satisfy your uncaring, he said that you die if you steal

 

[Desaari]

I think torrents themselves are legal using them to access illegal files are not

Actually it's still a bit of a gray area because different countries have different laws. The above statement might be true in Denmark or Sweden or wherever the The Pirate Bay is based, but rulings from courts in the U.S. and other countries could yield different results depending on the arguments put up in those courts. Whether torrents themselves are deemed legal or illegal would be determined by those rulings, and would cement the consensus among judges for future cases, unless a law were passed of course.

 

[Lunar Shadow]

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Mmhm, we should just go back to Hammurabi's code.
Much more simple.

Seriously, when I learned about it, I was like "This is the greatest idea ever."
My second thought was "Why aren't we following this anymore?"

god is code was so good and simple! doesn't mean i'll stop braking it...

Most of "his" laws involve not straying from the path, or whatever.

Actually, I don't remember the Commandments.
Nor do I care to.

just to satisfy your uncaring, he said that you die if you steal

YOu typed "God is code". did you mean "his"?

 

[oktalist]

A torrent for a movie that someone made and is making no money off of (like indie movies and the like) is fine.

You may still be in breach of copyright law regardless of whether the copyright owner is making any money off of it or not. You probably knew that; I'm just clarifying your statement.

It depends on the license under which the work has been released. If none then it defaults to "all rights reserved". And the law says that all works are automatically copyrighted from the moment they are created, until the copyright elapses; they don't even need a copyright notice (although without one, there is no practical way to sue for infringement).

But hang on... how are we meant to know what license something is under before we've downloaded it and been able to read the license? And what's to stop a torrent description* saying something is legal when it's actually not?

* replace "torrent description" with "back-of-box blurb" for conventional retail if you like, or the appropriate phrase for any other method of content distribution.

 

[mike1921]

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Mmhm, we should just go back to Hammurabi's code.
Much more simple.

Seriously, when I learned about it, I was like "This is the greatest idea ever."
My second thought was "Why aren't we following this anymore?"

I've had the exact same thoughts.

 

[T-Blade]

I've used torrents for free software and music artists who allow Downloading of there music, Like The flashbulb.

 

[Glerken]

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Mmhm, we should just go back to Hammurabi's code.
Much more simple.

Seriously, when I learned about it, I was like "This is the greatest idea ever."
My second thought was "Why aren't we following this anymore?"

Exactly, and if we still had the punishments help in the town square like they did back then, we wouldn't need professional sports to keep the normal people entertained and not rioting.
Then we wouldn't have uneducated sportsmen making a thousand times the salary a scientist is making.

I guess we'd have to edit it so it's not sexist, but that could be done rather easily.