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Police will conduct raids on behalf of individuals or companies as long as their is enough solid evidence that the raid will lead to arrests for violation of laws that individual or company claims are being broken. The police usually have to get the authorization of a judge (depending on country) so that ups the bar a bit.

An example would be a private citizen telling the cops the house down the street has a meth lab in the basement and he saw it while over there for dinner one day or such. If the police can get enough corroborating evidence a judge might grant them a search warrant to verify the claim is in fact true and arrest and prosecute the involved individuals.

I don't think that's a wrong thing for the cops to do... If the laws are a problem we have to take our grievances to the legislature or courts.

Much like your contribution to the article.

Much like your sense of humor, *******.

No because the MPAA has all the rights (and laws in this case) to do this.

Although I dont agree because I pirate almost everything, if they come in my house (which is not possible because I live in Europe) and take away my HDDs and arrest me, I have nothing to do but accept the consequences.

I'm sorry I disappointed you.

You do know that many of the laws written under the Bush administration were "influenced" by Corporate America?

Yeah, no chance in that. Money talks with those guys. Overruled.

So true, in fact Bush is like a slave of Corporate America, he do what the big guys tell him to do.

Not that I claim to be an expert... but isn't the legislator branch of government responsible for writing laws, not the executive? I'm sure Bush's administration has an influence....but...still..... as much as i'd like to think that everything wrong with this country is Bush's fault, I have this bad feeling that not much is going to change after he leaves office.

Correct you are. It's lobbyists and lazy politicians in CONGRESS that are screwing this country to hell. Bush is definitely no great President but he didn't do this. The system was screwed up 8 years ago before he was in office. As much of it is their fault for being lazy, it's also somewhat our fault for electing them.

You do know that the DMCA, which is what these are mostly charged under, was passed in 1998, two years before Bush was elected.

Some are the lesser of two evils.

Well put.

Truth be told unless something is done about it we're looking at the path toward another revolutionary war...

Our government is no longer serving the interests of the people and it is only a matter of time before the people reclaim their power. Hopefully that happens within the context of our current government with the majority of the people petitioning for redress and the elected officials listening before it reaches the point of no return.

A revolution once in a while also helps...

If everyone thought the same way as you...The world will make a LOT more sense...

And who is representing the people who do the work making those movies and receive no compensation for it from pirates?

Ahhh there ya go.

The legal system already represent content owners. That is why we have IP laws. What shouldn't be happening is the content owners using the government and government resources to promote their business plan (protecting copyrights). There is a reason why IP law is treated civilly and not criminally. There is all the difference in the world between intellectual and physical property... but the mind-washing propaganda of the MPAA, RIAA & BSA would have you believe that they are starving because you are stealing from them. They are not starving and it is not technically theft... it may be a violation of copyrighted works (the content owners have not lost the content) at the very worst. And so, they are more than welcome to come after you civilly, but trying to get the gov't involved (aka, doing their work for them) and portraying it as a crime is total bull****.

If the idiots in Hollywood had any brains, they would find a way to make money off of this technology rather than trying to crush it and penalize their customers. Look at the success of the VHS (which they tried to fight against in the Sony Betamax case).

Good grief, that thing is encrypted to the hilt!

Isn't perfet dark fairly old as far as Japan goes, and due to the encryption and anonymization, really slow compared to other options

From what I've read it's the newest, the more popular Winny and Share p2p predate this application. Encryption and relay design of Perfect Dark was implemented to fill some of the gaps on those two systems. The transfer is relatively fast, especially on uploading new content. The system is not well publicly documented, but I've noticed that the bandwidth required is roughly about ~30% of the size of the media being seeded, I'm guessing this has to do with the distributed hash table system being used much like a rainbow table and assembling new contents with chunks of other existing bit patterns, thus only requiring uploads of the unique bit patterns... but that's hearsay.

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you probably have a legit point... but look at it this way... those guys from MPAA etc are still rich when is all said and done regardless of how much Piracy happens.

plus like many people said before... physically stealing something vs virtual stealing aint completely the same thing as the RIAA/MPAA would like you to believe... cause there's no measurable loss with downloading something you might not have paid for to begin with where as if you stole a dvd movie from a store that's directly making a person lose money since it's physical theft and it costed money to make that physical dvd copy etc.

and another thing is... when RIAA/MPAA estimates losses (as im sure u already know) they always 'assume' that all those copies of pirated movies would have been bought if the person could not download it which is NOT true... sure some people might but i would be willing to bet that the majority would not have bought it.

here's a example... say a certain movie was pirated 1 million times... the MPAA would claim they lost 1million times the price of the dvd (say it's 15 dollars each) so that would be 15million dollars they 'claimed' they lost... when in reality not everyone who downloaded that movie would have paid for it even if they could not get it for free... sure some would but not all... so i would roughly guess than AT MOST they might have lost HALF of that 15million... although it 'probably' aint even half that... i think you get my point

i aint saying downloading movies/music etc for free is right but i also feel it aint THAT BAD either.... cause if i was in there situation i would not be happy about people downloading movies. but the way i see it is, if i was still living a more than comfortable lifestyle (which im sure most of them are) it would not be worth ruining people's lives over a few extra dollars.

bottom line = MPAA is just greedy as i think they pretty much proved that by some of the stuff they do to people.

Last edited by ThaCrip on 20 Apr 2008 - 04:53

Indeed, I was about to post a similar comment.

I think the RIAA/MPAA is a corrupted mafia organization that act like a legal system to control the music and movie industry.

It's a moronic step in the totally wrong direction. If the grass-f***ers in Hollywood at the MPAA & RIAA (plus BSA) had any brains, they would embrace new technologies and find a way to profit from them. Besides, what type of idiot sues your own customers? That just proves their ignorance and intolerance.