nsane.forums Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 Two months ago, a collection of fifty US and Japan-based adult movie studios filed a mass copyright complaint against around 10,000 South Koreans accused of being heavy uploaders of porn.The studios also filed suit against 80 websites accused of aiding and abetting the distribution of the illegally uploaded movies.A National Police Agency spokesman said that the lawsuit was filed at 10 police stations in the South Korean capital, Seoul, and in the Gyeonggi province. The studios asked the police to investigate the infringements, which carry a potential jail sentence.However, from the 10,000 complaints issued, prosecutors charged just 10 people with copyright infringement. In response, the disappointed studios say they will fight back. Next week they promise to re-file their lawsuit, but this time will increase the number of individuals accused to 65,000.Kim Han-Seo, a lawyer representing the movie producers, said that the prosecutors were not tough enough so they had decided to up the ante.“Now, we’ve drawn up a new list of some 65,000 users who fit this guideline,” he said. “We’ll see whether the prosecutors will press charges against them all.†As we reported earlier on our sister site FreakBits, at the end of August distributors of a hit Korean disaster movie called in the police after it was leaked to the Internet and was downloaded 100,000 times. Kim Han-Seo said that the Korean authorities had responded quickly to that local problem, but accused them of different standards when it comes to protecting foreign content, such as the material produced by his porn movie employers.“We believe that [the prosecution] should not be discriminatory in applying copyright laws. Illegal copying and distribution run rampant in Korea because it is one of the world’s most wired countries. We decided to take legal action to minimize our past business losses and to protect anticipated future profits,†he said.The threat now is that if the local Korean authorities fails to act in a way that pleases the porn producers, they will take their case directly to the US government instead.The initial lawsuit indicated that the studios had also harvested the IP addresses of around 100,000 individuals who downloaded the adult movies but to date, there is no indication that they will become a target.Article from: TorrentFreak, check out our new blog at FreakBits. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manpe Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 Holy shit! The Pirate Bay case really brought the balls out..................... literally :eekout: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 Holy shit! The Pirate Bay case really brought the balls out..................... literally <img src="http://www.nsaneforums.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/eekout.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":eekout:" border="0" alt="eekout.gif" />this is why im staying away from p2p and sticking with newsgroups Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HX1 Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 Well I don't think nor believe this about P2P.. more like Sites that host uploaded files from their members. anything from self recorded from webcam.. to rips of copyrighted material, and prices for various memberships which allow you to stream full movies and so on.. To do this, and I know from personal experience you have to have a license, and pay either monthly bi-yearly or yearly for the right to do so.. So the site itself can be guilty in some cases.. and the individual with the account, who is upp-ing the material..I forgot to mention too, that depending on the contract the production company, who is also in the same business.. has the right to monopolize all of its material... That includes 1 and 2 min segments, used to juice it up, and get people to join.A lot of these free sites which are set up to let members interact freely .. do hookups and so on.. They have blogs and profiles just like MySpace where you can embed anything...and basically you could just dehydrate and wither away watching all of the media.. You wouldn't have to purchase a thing..Much the same reason that Ning.com, and several other over the past few years have either re-purposed or dissolved because of the pressure put on them by the companies.. and copyright holders... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarre™ Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 Those people got nailed because they forgot to conceal themselves :tooth: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manpe Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 Those people got nailed because they forgot to conceal themselves :tooth:They got nailed ? :o Oh, oh.. you mean nailed like in getting caught, riiiiight :towel: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HX1 Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 Yeah I found that to amusingly coincidental.. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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