• Man handed £400,000 piracy fine
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[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25429237#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa[/url]
Because that is a completely reasonable fine to cover the HUGE losses the company suffered from him uploading that one movie... :downs:
I feel as if we can't say anything about piracy without being banned. So I will leave my opinions to myself.
I'm pretty sure you can talk about piracy in a thread about piracy. If this was in the UK. I would just stop right now and delete everything. If I ever get fined it's going to be embarassing, since I'm using my parents connection, but I wouldn't let them take the blame.
[QUOTE=avincent;43226579]I feel as if we can't say anything about piracy without being banned. So I will leave my opinions to myself.[/QUOTE] You can as long as you don't promote it or admit to doing it yourself.
"How do we stop people from uploading our movie?" "We scare them by forcing someone to pay a huuuuge fine, put in sweet words like "worst pirate ever" and put him in jail."
How do they actually calculate that fine, do they go by the amount of current downloaders against the cost of one purchased film? If that's the case then surely a film with say 2 leechers would incur a fine of ~£40
[QUOTE=D3vils Buddy;43235782]How do they actually calculate that fine, do they go by the amount of current downloaders against the cost of one purchased film? If that's the case then surely a film with say 2 leechers would incur a fine of ~£40[/QUOTE] I doubt the fine is actually calculated at all.
[QUOTE=D3vils Buddy;43235782]How do they actually calculate that fine, do they go by the amount of current downloaders against the cost of one purchased film? If that's the case then surely a film with say 2 leechers would incur a fine of ~£40[/QUOTE] ".. maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and maximum fine of $250,000 per infringement can be imposed." .. and then I guess they added $150.000 for numbers of downloads or for uploading it.
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