The sue em all copyright business model

geni

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Someone other than picscout appears to finally have got it to work:

So why have P2P lawsuits against individuals spiked dramatically in 2010? It's all thanks to the US Copyright Group, a set of lawyers who have turned P2P prosecution into revenue generation in order to "SAVE CINEMA." The model couldn't be simpler: find an indie filmmaker; convince the production company to let you sue individual "John Does" for no charge; send out subpoenas to reveal each Doe's identity; demand that each person pay $1,500 to $2,500 to make the lawsuit go away; set up a website to accept checks and credit cards; split the revenue with the filmmaker.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/06/the-riaa-amateurs-heres-how-you-sue-p2p-users.ars

Oh and aparently at least 4,577 people have downloaded a Uwe Boll film.
 
Oh darn, party's over I guess.

Just rent the damn thing from Netflix. It's cheaper and less hassle.

Yeah, it kind of sucks for these people but how else can you deter it?
 
When it comes to IP issues, arstechnica is like reading the huffpo to learn about vaccines
 
And if ACTA passes things will get even worse. There has now been a published copy and are previously leaked versions available.

This treaty is basically policy laundering...
 
pipelineaudio said:
When it comes to IP issues, arstechnica is like reading the huffpo to learn about vaccines
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Really? I'd like to think of myself as an IP expert (I consult at an international level and teach the stuff), and while I would not consider them in the same level as an academic research paper, I usually find them quite well informed. They have writers in their staff that at least know the basics and get them right most of the time.

That's more than I can say for most mainstream media, except the FT.
 
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