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omg i don't know why i wrote that.. i know what it is 
sorry, my bad
sorry, my bad
QUOTE(hotindia @ Dec 13 2006, 02:13 PM) [snapback]70836[/snapback]
i download game and movie[hindi not english] torrents from public sites and not private sites. am i in big risk?has MPAA and RIAA screwed any guy in india for downloading torrents i heard there are many pending cases and mpaa has punished 80 million people worldwide can anyone explain it.and another question do you guys download torrents from public or private sites?reply soon
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You are not alone I download old stuff from public trackers and new stuff from private trackers. Given the BB scenario here I doubt anyone would be interested in prosecuting you . I love downloading and will continue doing it.............stay away from public trackers the so called legal bigwigs are always keeping an eye on them. Maybe you could use some thing like peer guardian but its not full proof. Have you seen the the documentary on link-removed even the all so mighty americanos could not stop them. They were down for one day and up again the very next day more powerful. Anyways the moral of the story is anything illegal has got a risk attached to it and if you are one of those who is constantly going to worry stay away from it.
i download game and movie[hindi not english] torrents from public sites and not private sites. am i in big risk?has MPAA and RIAA screwed any guy in india for downloading torrents i heard there are many pending cases and mpaa has punished 80 million people worldwide can anyone explain it.and another question do you guys download torrents from public or private sites?reply soon
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You are not alone I download old stuff from public trackers and new stuff from private trackers. Given the BB scenario here I doubt anyone would be interested in prosecuting you . I love downloading and will continue doing it.............stay away from public trackers the so called legal bigwigs are always keeping an eye on them. Maybe you could use some thing like peer guardian but its not full proof. Have you seen the the documentary on link-removed even the all so mighty americanos could not stop them. They were down for one day and up again the very next day more powerful. Anyways the moral of the story is anything illegal has got a risk attached to it and if you are one of those who is constantly going to worry stay away from it.
QUOTE(hotindia @ Dec 14 2006, 01:56 PM) [snapback]70888[/snapback]
who are the legal bigwigs in india?can they take any action in india?
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Hard to say, my guess is when the perceived loss crosses some invisible line and spurs them into action. For that to happen there will have be at least an order of magnitude more home PC & broadband use. All the lawsuits started flying in the US & .eu when broadband use was well over 20%.
So since we are currently languishing at 3%, i "think" there is still time.
India has been a WTO member for nearly a decade now. I'm under the impression this little fact will certainly oblige India to police copyright, but to what extent remains to be seen. There are grievances on both sides of this agreement, issues that are a hell of a lot more important to the country than piracy.
who are the legal bigwigs in india?can they take any action in india?
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Hard to say, my guess is when the perceived loss crosses some invisible line and spurs them into action. For that to happen there will have be at least an order of magnitude more home PC & broadband use. All the lawsuits started flying in the US & .eu when broadband use was well over 20%.
So since we are currently languishing at 3%, i "think" there is still time.
India has been a WTO member for nearly a decade now. I'm under the impression this little fact will certainly oblige India to police copyright, but to what extent remains to be seen. There are grievances on both sides of this agreement, issues that are a hell of a lot more important to the country than piracy.
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World's First Jail Sentence for BitTorrent Piracy 
Hong Kong newspaper The Standard reports on what seems to be the world's first case of a BitTorrent movie pirate being sent to jail. (Others have been jailed for related crimes.) After losing his appeal against a November 2005 conviction, Chan Nai-ming, a 38-year-old BitTorrent user known as 'Big Crook,' has begun serving a prison sentence for making the films 'Daredevil,' 'Miss Congeniality,' and 'Red Planet' available for download via BitTorrent. His appeal was based on the fact that he did not profit from the piracy.
From the article: "[Appeals Judge] Beeson noted [convicting magistrate] MacIntosh, in handing out the sentence, was fully aware of the noncommercial nature of the case, but measured the seriousness of the case by the harm done to the moviemakers — not by the gain made by the offender. Chan, and those in the chatroom, 'were aware of the possible criminal implications of uploading films to the system,' Beeson wrote. She also noted the sentence was already drastically reduced, from a maximum of four years, to three months, in order 'to reflect the novelty of the conviction.'
Hong Kong newspaper The Standard reports on what seems to be the world's first case of a BitTorrent movie pirate being sent to jail. (Others have been jailed for related crimes.) After losing his appeal against a November 2005 conviction, Chan Nai-ming, a 38-year-old BitTorrent user known as 'Big Crook,' has begun serving a prison sentence for making the films 'Daredevil,' 'Miss Congeniality,' and 'Red Planet' available for download via BitTorrent. His appeal was based on the fact that he did not profit from the piracy.
From the article: "[Appeals Judge] Beeson noted [convicting magistrate] MacIntosh, in handing out the sentence, was fully aware of the noncommercial nature of the case, but measured the seriousness of the case by the harm done to the moviemakers — not by the gain made by the offender. Chan, and those in the chatroom, 'were aware of the possible criminal implications of uploading films to the system,' Beeson wrote. She also noted the sentence was already drastically reduced, from a maximum of four years, to three months, in order 'to reflect the novelty of the conviction.'
