The leaking soldier had several avenues, some outside his chain of command, to use to report his fears. He did not have to risk national secrets or courts-martial to get something done.
Thanks for enlisting and serving. We owe you for that. But as a soldier you should know that it can be treason to follow an unlawful order. The days when having soldiers only intelligent enough to blindly follow orders ended with the charge of the light brigade.
"Huh? So fair use doesn't cover unusable fragments? Hookay. Are you saying portions of a torrent aren't usable?"
Do you understand the meaning of the word, "use"? By definition if it's unusable, there can be no fair use. Of course, if it's unusable there's no reason to sue you for it, either. Ok, whether a portion of a torrent will be usable or not depends on what it is. small piece of DVD, probably not usable. Small piece of a text document, probably usable.
You make some good points. The hard part would be proving you didn't download the whole movie. The class action could work in the defendants favor in this case. To prove they all downloaded the actual movie would require getting records for the specific dates and times. Sharp lawyers will force the USCG to prove that each person actually is a member of the class.
For fair use the tiny piece has to be useable. You can take a few sentences from a book or copy a few minutes of a movie to a tape or DVD, but in most cases if you only download a small piece of a torrent you won't be able to do anything with it. Fair use allows copying for backup, and using small samples of the work for education and other uses.
There are also other reasonable limits to fair use, but I wouldn't want to argue that up - or down - loading a torrent file fell within the bounds of any of them in a court of law.
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The leaking soldier had several avenues, some outside his chain of command, to use to report his fears. He did not have to risk national secrets or courts-martial to get something done.
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Thanks for enlisting and serving. We owe you for that. But as a soldier you should know that it can be treason to follow an unlawful order. The days when having soldiers only intelligent enough to blindly follow orders ended with the charge of the light brigade.
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"Huh? So fair use doesn't cover unusable fragments? Hookay. Are you saying portions of a torrent aren't usable?"
Do you understand the meaning of the word, "use"? By definition if it's unusable, there can be no fair use. Of course, if it's unusable there's no reason to sue you for it, either. Ok, whether a portion of a torrent will be usable or not depends on what it is. small piece of DVD, probably not usable. Small piece of a text document, probably usable.
"You can take a few sentences from a book ..."
Fine. What if a few hundred of us do that?
You all teaching a class?
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You make some good points. The hard part would be proving you didn't download the whole movie. The class action could work in the defendants favor in this case. To prove they all downloaded the actual movie would require getting records for the specific dates and times. Sharp lawyers will force the USCG to prove that each person actually is a member of the class.
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For fair use the tiny piece has to be useable. You can take a few sentences from a book or copy a few minutes of a movie to a tape or DVD, but in most cases if you only download a small piece of a torrent you won't be able to do anything with it. Fair use allows copying for backup, and using small samples of the work for education and other uses.
There are also other reasonable limits to fair use, but I wouldn't want to argue that up - or down - loading a torrent file fell within the bounds of any of them in a court of law.