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Posted by CmdrTaco (37% noise) View
dantheman82 and others have submitted a number of links about the recent closure of torrent mega sites like suprnova and torrentbits. The Unofficial Suprnova Closure FAQ comments that some torrent site maintainers have been arrested and that Suprnova was closed over fear of similiar fate. DeHavilland notes that the finnish police raided an unnamed torrent site. There’s a lot of scary things here, but to me what is most scary is that American copyright owners can mobilize foreign police to do their bidding.
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International Copyright Law - by StormReaver (Score: 5, Insightful) Thread
“There’s a lot of scary things here, but to me what is most scary is that American copyright owners can mobilize foreign police to do their bidding.”
Perhaps dantheman82 needs to understand the concept of international copyright law. Many countries, including those in the story, have agreements to enforce each other’s copyrights.
The sites being shut down were rampantly violating the copyrights of an organization big enough to fight back.
What’s scary is that the submitter thinks shutting these sites down is somehow wrong and unjust. There are a lot of things wrong with the big music companies, but this is not one of them.
If there’s something to be angry about, be angry that these governments wouldn’t take the time and effort to protect your small time products in the same manner they protect the big big time products.
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This isn’t new. Remember anon.funet.fi? - by i_want_you_to_throw_ (Score: 4, Informative) Thread
Everyone remember when anon.funet.fi was raided at the request of scientology?
With enough money to fund attorneys you can apparently get other countries, especially the Finnish, to comply.
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Freenet? - by caffeine_monkey (Score: 5, Interesting) Thread
Freenet is probably too slow to recreate a site like Suprnova, but how about this. Instead of using Freenet to distribute each individual torrent, could you publish on Freenet a torrent that contains other torrents? For instance, a torrent for each category of files, like what was on Suprnova - a “Movies-Drama” torrent that contained a zipped file of all torrents in that category? This way, you wouldn’t be relying on Freenet to distribute every torrent file, just a much smaller index of torrents.
If somebody wanted to take ownership of this, they could create a Freenet page with an anonymous feedback form. When somebody has a torrent to publish, they could submit the info to the anonymous form, and then the publisher would compile all the new torrents into the next version of the index.
Sound feasible?
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copyright is not american only - by harlows_monkeys (Score: 5, Insightful) Thread
There’s a lot of scary things here, but to me what is most scary is that American copyright owners can mobilize foreign police to do their bidding
Generally, those “American copyright owners” are also the German copyright owners, and the French copyright owners, and the Japanese copyright owners, and the Russian copyright owners. About the only place they aren’t the copyright owners is Gilligan’s Island.
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MPAA had nothing to do with the finnish raids - by edgrale (Score: 5, Informative) Thread
Actually it has been reported that MPAA had NOTHING to do with the finnish raids.
The KRP (Keskusrikospoliisi = FBI?) has publicly said that the MPAA has not been in contact with the finnish authorities. Here is a site (in finnish) that says it all.
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