The judicial system in the United States has long since used such tactics: throw someone in jail, threaten them with unbelievably long prison sentences, know they don't have money for a proper defense and then offer them a plea bargain (for example,only five years if they plead guilty rather than 55 if they go through the full court process).

Amazing how well this works even on obviously innocent persons.

Until the State changes there is no reason to think the corporations will.

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im by ur side :)

As i know that the hundreds risk accusation of illegal file-sharing. In case of innocent bystanders being caught in the war between the entertainment industry and those who flout the law by illegally downloading games over the internet.

The basic problem here is that an IP address is being mistaken as a person's identity. In your article you only list one example which illustrates why an IP address does not identify a person. There are countless other possibilities and they have been well documented. Atari's solicitors should be aware of that and I in my humble opinion it looks quite plausble that this is a case of a deliberate misrepresentation. I hope the Murdoch’s go after Atari and hit them hard.

Why do people need to play a game in order to share it Inq.?

If I was downloading a movie, there is equally no reason to watch it first is there?

Let's try to drag the journalistic quality level of articles above 'The Sun' or 'Daily Mail' level please?


I know it's hard. But please try. ;-)






i personally know ultruistic peeps that leave their wireless connections open for anybody to use as they wish, some may say this is inadvisable, but where does it state it's ILLEGAL to share your connection with complete strangers, hmmmmm, i thought so :O) 

so bully boy leaches on society, Davenport Lyons, go and stick your threats along with the raggy end of a pineapple up your corporate backsides !!

im a *cough, mature/silver surfer, (sounds so much nicer than oldies dunnit) that does use pirate bay, oh plzzzzz, plzzzzzzz, if there is a god, send them round to my gaff :O)