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bassexpander
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 Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 4:49 am Post subject: Foreign porn makers expand lawsuits to 65,000 Koreans |
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/09/113_51686.html
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By Kang Shin-who
Staff Reporter
Illegal downloads are a problem not even Apple, the maker of iPods, or major Hollywood record labels can solve. Now this fight to protect copyright is finding a new ally in a dubious sector: pornography.
U.S. and Japanese porn makers are suing 65,000 people here who they claim have downloaded their products without permission.
This is the second round of the battle following their attempt to take culprits to court last July.
Then, a group of 50 porn producers in the two countries filed a lawsuit against 10,000 Koreans for posting the producers' adult films on local file-sharing Web sites.
They also alleged that Koreans charged subscribers to download them.
However, the prosecution decided to investigate only those who uploaded the films more than three times, with only 10 of them being held legally responsible.
Dissatisfied with the result, they plan to file a lawsuit next week against 65,000 Korean Internet users.
This time, the porn makers are enlisting the help of Korean legal experts. A law firm was hired and is working on their behalf.
The firm has cited the double standards employed by Korea in handling piracy. .... |
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bobbyhanlon
Joined: 09 Nov 2003
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| Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 9:09 am Post subject: |
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good idea.. i'd imagine most of them would pay whatever fines were demanded just to keep it out of court.
could be a great scam actually. just send out letters to any man with an internet connection, demanding, say, $100 in restitution for illegal porno downloading, with the threat of taking them to court if they don't pay up. it'd be a brave man who said 'go on, sue me'. |
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Hyeon Een
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| Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 11:57 am Post subject: |
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| Good luck guys, good luck. If they win (against all these defendants) I'll buy a cupcake for every person on this board. |
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mc_jc
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| Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 12:03 pm Post subject: |
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| If they win (against all these defendants) I'll buy a cupcake for every person on this board. |
Please remember that I like sprinkles on the frosting and I prefer chocolate  . |
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Hyeon Een
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| Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 12:04 pm Post subject: |
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| If they win (against all these defendants) I'll buy a cupcake for every person on this board. |
Please remember that I like sprinkles on the frosting and I prefer chocolate . |
Will do, will do. Send me a PM to remind me the minute they win though, just so I get you at the top of the list. |
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mc_jc
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| Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 12:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanx- absolutely wll do. |
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shinramyun
Joined: 31 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 1:40 pm Post subject: |
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| the lawsuit is going to fail, just like how lawsuit against pirate bay, one of the notorious torrent site, failed miserably. |
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GreenlightmeansGO
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Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 2:41 pm Post subject: |
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| As far as I know, the founders of Pirate Bay were given jail sentences...weren't they? They are appealing, but it doesn't sound like the lawsuit failed, to me. |
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