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Site That Provides Fan-Made Subtitles Loses Copyright Infringement Appeal

posted by Fnord666 on Monday March 26 2018, @06:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the subtitles-provided-by-no-one dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow3941

The founder of a site that provided fan-created subtitles has lost his appeal against a conviction for copyright infringement. In 2017 a Swedish court found that the unauthorized distribution of movie subtitles is a crime, sentencing the then 32-year-old to probation and a fine. The Court of Appeal has now largely upheld that earlier verdict.

Source: https://torrentfreak.com/founder-of-fan-made-subtitle-site-lose-copyright-infringement-appeal-180318/

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Arik on Monday March 26 2018, @09:55PM (7 children)

    by Arik (4543) on Monday March 26 2018, @09:55PM (#658674) Journal
    "the rights holders."

    That would be all of us. Human rights, you may have heard the phrase?

    The idea that only big corporations have rights, and the practice of calling their privileges 'rights,' need to be rejected. Instead you've clearly swallowed them whole.

    You'll get what you deserve, but the rest of us don't deserve to have to share it with you.
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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @11:01PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @11:01PM (#658694)

    Or do only savages think a person's sexual tissues should be off limits to other people's knives?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @03:05AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @03:05AM (#658777)

    Or do only savages think a person's sexual tissues should be off limits to other people's knives?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @03:50AM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @03:50AM (#658791)

      You're not the only hardline individualist/right-to-life-above-all-else advocate out here, as I've explained to you before. Posts at -1 are NOT "censored", and even if you stubbornly and incorrectly disagree, more -1, Spam mods will not help your situation.

      Please stop spamming your posts when authoritarians mod them down.

      • (Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @04:02AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @04:02AM (#658800)

        If that's the default, then I define that as censorship.

        So... suck my intact cock.

        • (Score: 2) by Arik on Tuesday March 27 2018, @06:23PM

          by Arik (4543) on Tuesday March 27 2018, @06:23PM (#659072) Journal
          For some strange reason you chose to post this to me, multiple times. I don't hide any messages, regardless of score. So, at least insofar as myself, apparently the intended reader, moderation will have no effect on me seeing your comment.

          I'm not ignoring it because I don't see it, I'm ignoring it because it seems senseless and off-topic.
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  • (Score: 2) by Pino P on Tuesday March 27 2018, @01:41PM (1 child)

    by Pino P (4721) on Tuesday March 27 2018, @01:41PM (#658960) Journal

    From the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: "Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author."

    • (Score: 2) by Arik on Tuesday March 27 2018, @06:20PM

      by Arik (4543) on Tuesday March 27 2018, @06:20PM (#659070) Journal
      "the Universal Declaration of Human Rights"

      A document that gets off to a good start and deliberately goes completely off the rails by the end.

      Sad, that.
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