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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
I mean can I take legal action in the same ease they can against me with this legislation.
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Yes, of course you can.
It is, however, always worth remembering that in the real world - in the event that someone, based on evidence, decides to sue you - denying that you are a habitual infringer is somewhat more expensive than posting on a forum and any such denials, in order to be plausible, will require more than just a statement along the lines of
"It wasn't me" or
"there is no evidence whatsoever that internet piracy reduces sales".
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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
There seems to be no protection for people been wrongfully harrassed eg. when ip's get spoofed.
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See above.
There is nothing new here as far as culpable responsibility is concerned.
Every ISP that I'm aware of makes (and has always made) it expressly clear that account holders are responsible for what goes on with their account (wireless or not). The fact that people might now actually be brought to account for allowing their service to be used for breaking the law seems to be an issue for some.
If someone needs to have this pointed out to them three times (in addition to existing T&Cs) then they only have themselves to blame.
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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
I cant find any independent reports backed with facts sorry.
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Whilst I'm not sure what you might consider to be "independent" or, for that matter what you might consider to be "facts", I am sure that if you were ever to find yourself in the unfortunate position that you were sued and you used the
"there is no evidence whatsoever that internet piracy reduces sales" defence you would go down in history as a comedic genius
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I'm also sure that in the eyes of the law ignorance is no defence.
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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
even the one you linked to was very poor.
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You're an adult - I'm quite sure you are capable of finding links / facts to substantiate the fact that internet piracy reduces sales. If it didn't why would you bother referring to it as "piracy".
Also, it's rather interesting that in your earlier post you said
"there is no evidence whatsoever that internet piracy reduces sales" whilst simultaneously offering your "view" on how the big bad media companies might go about reducing something that, by your assertion, even they can't prove.
As I said, comedic genius.