posted by
martyb
on Thursday November 27 2014, @03:55PM
from the sudden-outbreak-of-[un]common-sense dept.
from the sudden-outbreak-of-[un]common-sense dept.
TorrentFreak reports
A federal court in California has ruled that Usenet service provider Giganews is not guilty of copyright infringement, nor can it be held responsible for customers who do pirate content.
[...]Adult magazine publisher Perfect 10 has made a business out of suing online services for allegedly facilitating copyright infringement. Over the past several years the company has targeted a dozen high-profile companies including Google, Amazon, Yandex, MasterCard, Visa, RapidShare, Giganews, and Depositfiles.
Aside from a few private settlements, the company has yet to score its first victory in court.
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Court Rules Giganews Not Liable for Usenet Customers' Piracy
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(Score: 1) by Gravis on Thursday November 27 2014, @04:22PM
boobs just want to be free... wait, i mean information! information just wants to be boobs... wait, i uhh... what were we talking about?
(Score: 3, Funny) by redneckmother on Thursday November 27 2014, @04:47PM
We were discussing how "Perfect 10" are just a bunch of boobs, I think...
Mas cerveza por favor.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 27 2014, @04:54PM
Some"body" should sue Perfect 10 for copyright infringement, Bo Derek was the first perfect 10 in the movie "10"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 27 2014, @05:06PM
Nadia Comeneci got the Perfect 10 years before that movie. The whole world saw it.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday November 27 2014, @08:12PM
Duh, what a lame magazine. The proper name should be "Perfect 0x10" ;-)
"10h" could also be accepted :p
(Score: 2) by francois.barbier on Thursday November 27 2014, @08:05PM
atah? atah!
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday November 27 2014, @08:18PM
Let's hope "Perfect 10" is removed from financial viability such that an example is set for litigating bastards. Those that prioritize profit over constitutional rights. Deserve neither profits or constitutional protection.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 27 2014, @09:03PM
P10 were really acting in bad faith. They were able to identify the article-ID's of every infringing post but they refused to submit them to Giga's DMCA removal process. They weren't looking for any sort of compromise, they wanted to put the entire burden of protecting their copyright on Giga. If they had won it would have been ridiculously bad precedent.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 27 2014, @10:59PM
Nobody wants to LISTEN to you. Tits or GTFO.
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Friday November 28 2014, @12:18AM
The first rule of Usenet is that you don't talk about Usenet.
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(Score: 2) by JNCF on Friday November 28 2014, @05:43PM
Now might be a good time to note that Giganews has also recently filed a DMCA. In my eyes it's a much more damning one because the motive wasn't simply the hoarding of profitable pictures but instead an attempt to remove information from the Internet Archive [torrentfreak.com] that is related to allegations that the FBI runs Giganews. [soylentnews.org] The information being removed from the Internet Archive was internal company documents leaked to Cryptome, specifically materials with pictures of Giganews employees. The leaker claims that many employees in the photographs are also employed by the FBI as well. If those allegations ultimately prove true it would seem that the FBI is trying to abuse copyright laws to work around the first amendment. Yet another reason not to make any information illegal; those laws will eventually be abused and manipulated no matter what safeguards we put in place.