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Dirty Tricks: Anti-Piracy Group Caught Planting Evidence In Usenet Case
from the that-doesn't-seem-right dept
TorrentFreak has some disturbing news coming out of the legal fight in the Netherlands between anti-piracy group BREIN and Usenet community provider FTD. Apparently BREIN had somewhere around 15 "investigators" acting as FTD members -- and they may be using the actions of at least one to prove their legal point. FTD has argued, reasonably, that its members are not uploading content, but merely pointing out where it is available. BREIN argued, in response, that it was often the same users who would upload and point it out. Their evidence? A user who uploaded and pointed out the same movie. The problem? The guy who did that... works for BREIN. That sounds like planting evidence, a tactic law enforcement is sometimes seen to employ -- but BREIN is a private organization. Apparently, BRIEN is so closely tied to Dutch law enforcement that they seem to think they're part of it -- even going so far as to copy some law enforcement abuses.
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Talk about corporate espionage!!!
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Wait, what?
That sentence is profoundly disturbing.
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That sounds like it should be illegal or something.
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Step 2. Sue the site for infringing your copyright.
Step 3. Prove in court that you uploaded your music to the site.
Step 4. ???
Step 5. Profit!
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He would never make such a bold and unsubstantiated accusation about an American police force because in that case he might actually have to face some consequences.
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the question also needs to be asked did the law firm get distribution rights rhen offer a free download on a P2P service in which there should be no case to answear as they legally gave it away. I the law firm did not have distribution rights then they are as guilty as hell themselves and should be in the dock.
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b) what consequences exactly?
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This is a familiar Anonymous Coward ruse to promote controversy and publicity.
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Fuck your consequences. Go back to the pig sty you came from.
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He was drawing parallels to the (hopefully) infrequent illegal planting of evidence by some police to enhance their cases.
If you don't think this has ever happened, i have this bridge in san francisco for sale.. cheap.
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Oh, no way. I most certainly was not saying that at all. I was just noting that the issue of "planting evidence" is almost universally reserved for law enforcement, so I'm not sure how it's dealt with concerning private entities.
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we live in a country where citizens are tracked via GPS because of comments on social networks - you really haven't been paying attention have you ?
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That sounds like it should be illegal or something.
If it was a "little person", it probably would be. But probably not for big corporations.
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That's not necessarily how the law works. All it takes is for an industry-friendly judge to make one of those famous Alice-In-Wonderland judgments that it was legal for BRIEN to put it up but at the same time illegal for people to download it. I suspect that is what will actually happen.
Welcome to the real legal system.
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