Wait! Those torrent clients are written with programming languages! We should sue the people who made the programming languages for encouraging piracy!
And pirates are using hardware to commit their dirty deeds!
Maybe this is how technological society crumbles, one lawsuit at a time.
You wouldn’t download qt5
It’s not a serious suggestion, they’re just using this as a “fuck off” response to the record labels.
They should sue movie producers. After all, they regularly supply the pirates with fresh wares.
So parents can sue gun companies right?
And they can sue the state for giving out driver’s license
No, that’s different. People kill people, not guns.
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Torrent clients don’t download torrents, people download torrents. See? No difference.
Actually, torrent clients download files, not torrents.
Point, set, match!
It’s just a tool…for killing, very efficient killing tool
Sue the mine in China that supplied the raw materials that went into the dielectric material in the capacitors in the power supply of the computer that facilitated the downloading of illegal content….
Those materials wouldn’t exist if the Big Bang didn’t happen. So sue whoever made that happen.
“In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.” ― Douglas Adams
Really funny because you can’t sue a gun maker for the guns they sold killing people. I say funny but I mean that it’s so depressing I have to laugh to maintain sanity.
Someone doesn’t understand peer2peer filesharing. Next they will sue Microsoft for allowing pirated thing to run…
Is why I like to have multiple aliases and always connect via vpn… harder to sue me if they can’t figure out who I really am.
On that note, it would be really cool if there was a TOR-based github alternative (or even an I2P-based one) for hosting project repos somewhere that take-downs have no effect and servers can’t be seized. Anybody aware of anything like that? then again, I’m not even sure how I would configure
git/sshto use a TOR-based server lolWell if that argument works out for the studios, Oneida better get ready because I’ll be seeing them in court. After all, they made the spoons that I used to eat the ice cream that made me fat.
The same people that would use the “they made the software that was used for infringement” will be the ones stating that “the manufacturer of this firearm is not responsible for it being used in this mass-shooting”.
Kinda funny how the main driving point behind their argument is “does this affect me and my bottom line”
plenty of legal uses of the protocol. whats different here?
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Grande doesn’t explain why or when developers of torrent clients should be held liable for piracy. Popular torrent clients and sites that distribute this software are typically content-neutral and don’t actively encourage piracy. That is similar to the defense Grande relies on.
just graspin at straws it seems
Yup, and you can sue Sig Sauer if someone shoots you with one of their guns. You’ll lose due to having no basis for their culpability, but you can try.
Good luck sueing someone that lives in an unheard of African country with a population of one. This is exactly why people release software anonymously.
laughs in Russian
With that logic they should sue the creators of the AV1 codec as well. Lots of pirated movies will be encoded with it…
lol good luck tracking down someone who releases software into the wild.
Brb downloading the piratebay on the piratebay
Maybe in response to this we should all download a bunch of new music, then delete it all because it’s complete garbage.
You wouldn’t download and then delete a car would you?
It’s pretty easy: there’s no culpability on either side. It’s not either-or. If guns and ammo and knife manufacturers are not responsible for murder than neither are ISPs and software developers responsible for piracy.
If the courts don’t like that an IP isn’t a person, then they can pressure congress to change the laws. Until then, everyone can go fuck off
Double whammy, corporations are not people and should also have laws changed.
Corporations treated as persons only gives board people the ability to vote twice while the workers can’t.
All the rights of a person but none of the obligations.
I would argue by virtue of their constant bribery… I mean lobbying… that each of their votes is more like 2 million votes as far as getting policy changes enacted…
Although, the primary intended use of torrents are p2p filesharing, unlike any kind of weapon whose primary purpose is to cause harm or kill a living thing.
