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Friend just got slapped with a lawsuit from Time Warner

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Originally posted by: BigJ
Originally posted by: illustri
wait, why would time warner the isp care about downloading movies? why is the suit from them instead of mpaa?
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Time Warner is not just an ISP, IIRC.You know, the whole AOL-Time Warner thing.
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yea but they don't make movies
 
Originally posted by: illustri
wait, why would time warner the isp care about downloading movies? why is the suit from them instead of mpaa?
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time warner is involved in many movies.

 
Seems fishy to me. Up until this thread, Ive never heard by a Pirate getting slapped with a lawsuit by anyone but the MPAA/RIAA.

Zerofill the drive, trash it. Get a new one. Reinstall OS. Call bluff.
 
Originally posted by: TheNinja
Originally posted by: GoodDad
Originally posted by: FoBoT
Originally posted by: GoodDad
how can they prove that he dl'd it?
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ISP's keep logs

pirate boy is going to be poor
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no way that will stand up in court. His neighbor must have hacked into his wireless network and dl'd it.
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I agree. I just don't see how they have proof that it was actually him. Just erase the movie from the HDD, heck do a low level format of the thing. All other evidence in circumstantial. For all he knows, some guy snuck into his house and downloaded Harry Potter, then burned in on a DVD.....that bastard! I hate when people sneak into my house to use my computer.
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I used the key under the flower pot.
 
i stand corrected:

The following enterprises are part of Time Warner:

Warner Bros., a movie studio
New Line Cinema, a movie studio
 
you guys don't get it

they don't have to prove anything

a middle class family is going to have a dent in their budget to hire a lawyer to defend against this

it will be easier/cheaper to settle than to fight it, so the pirate boy's family is going to be out 5-10% of their annual income because of this
 
The solution is simple:

tell them that he was downloading what he thought was Harry Potter, but turned out to be a pron movie.

everyone wins. 😉
 
Originally posted by: FoBoT
you guys don't get it

they don't have to prove anything

a middle class family is going to have a dent in their budget to hire a lawyer to defend against this

it will be easier/cheaper to settle than to fight it, so the pirate boy's family is going to be out 5-10% of their annual income because of this
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The sad truth is that AOL/Time/Warner could probably just pick a national ISP - MSN or something - get their client list and sue every one of them, offering to settle, whether the 'victim' even knew what a filesharing program WAS or not.

Who can fight a mega-corporation?
 
Originally posted by: FoBoT
you guys don't get it

they don't have to prove anything

a middle class family is going to have a dent in their budget to hire a lawyer to defend against this

it will be easier/cheaper to settle than to fight it, so the pirate boy's family is going to be out 5-10% of their annual income because of this
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Agreed. They wouldn't be filing a lawsuit unless they had the ammo to back it up.
 
Originally posted by: Siva
Wow, that really sucks. Its like $5 to rent a movie, isn't $4k kinda overkill?
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exactly. I'm also very perplexed about why time warner charged such a high price for dl-ing a $10 movie.
 
time warner owns a crapload of stuff. even tv shows on other networks such as Joey on NBC are ultimately done by Time Warner.
i only know this as I work for a small company owned by WB.
 
Originally posted by: FoBoT
you guys don't get it

they don't have to prove anything

a middle class family is going to have a dent in their budget to hire a lawyer to defend against this

it will be easier/cheaper to settle than to fight it, so the pirate boy's family is going to be out 5-10% of their annual income because of this
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I guess that's the price we pay for the society we live in, but it just seems fscking wrong for a multi billion dollar corporation to even care about 4k, let alone stiff a working-class family out of 5-10% of their annual income, as you say..... just seems wrong...

 
Why are they slapping him with a lawsuit after such a long drought? My bet is the guy was using BT and that they're busting him for sharing (uploading) instead of downloading.
 
Originally posted by: russianpower
Originally posted by: Siva
Wow, that really sucks. Its like $5 to rent a movie, isn't $4k kinda overkill?
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exactly. I'm also very perplexed about why time warner charged such a high price for dl-ing a $10 movie.
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walk into best buy. Steal a Britney Spears CD. Get caught. If first time, maybe get away with a slap on the wrist. Pay for CD, maybe a small fee. Mostly just embarassment.

Download same CD, get sued by Britney for $10k per crappy song

 
Originally posted by: Eli
Originally posted by: FoBoT
you guys don't get it

they don't have to prove anything

a middle class family is going to have a dent in their budget to hire a lawyer to defend against this

it will be easier/cheaper to settle than to fight it, so the pirate boy's family is going to be out 5-10% of their annual income because of this
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I guess that's the price we pay for the society we live in, but it just seems fscking wrong for a multi billion dollar corporation to even care about 4k, let alone stiff a working-class family out of 5-10% of their annual income, as you say..... just seems wrong...
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I would imagine they are just trying to make an example out of him.
 
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