Depressed Scottish file-sharing nurse gets 3 yrs probation Auxiliary nurse Anne Muir, 58, has become the first person to be convicted and sentenced for illegal filesharing in Scotland. The Ayr Sheriff's court has sentenced her to three years' probation after she admitted sharing a stash of more than 30,000 music files online. Muir was charged by Strathclyde police following an …
I am so glad corporations such as Disney fight so hard to make copyright eternal as we have to make sure that steamboat willie will never belong to the public. I mean we can't have the tragedy of the commons occurring with such valuable IP (if somebody doesn't own everything then we have nothing but dirty communism after all). I mean after all not only are you entitled to profit off your hard word but your great grandkids should have to lawyer up and fight over your vast fortune.
If she has 30,000 tracks I'd bet there are a good few duplicates in there which would not have been bought and paid for many times over had the route chosen to obtain them been the legal one.
Plus, as a nurse, I doubt she would be able to afford 54k in the first place, and so would therefore never have been able to pay 54k for the tracks, and therefore the financial loss could not be that high. Of course that does not include the possibilty that some of the people she shared the files with might have otherwise bought legal copies, which may skew the figure in the opposite direction.
I don't condone file sharing but the case seems a little muddled to me. On the one hand the prosecution is for sharing files, but the figure given is the cost she would have paid to own them herself, not the perceived costs associated with her sharing them to others, although I appreciate this figure would be even harder and more controversial to quantify.
Will it make any difference? The media corps think they have a victory, the court employes have completed another day's work and just one person has been an example of.
I bet over the next 60 mins many, many more than 54,000 illegally aquired MP3 files will traverse "the toobs" and many millions will carry on as if nothing has happened.
Was it worth it?
They should lock the EVIL 58 year old nurse up. The multi-billion pound recording industry must be protected from SCUM like 58 year old nurses AT ALL COSTS. How else are artists like [REDACTED], [REDACTED], and [REDACTED] going to be able to pay for their coke and hookers?
Fuck the BFPI.
I heard artists earn around 1% of each sale and the rest goes to the label. That's a whole load of BS in and of itself. Then you get these artists who, despite being *paid* to *work* at gigs, have a whole host of demands that go along with each one, such as tea made from leaves picked by blind Tibetan monks brewed with the tears of a child born by immaculate conception The entire industry is messed up, it would never slide elsewhere.
She has my sympathy. It seems to me to be just a vindictive action for the sake of it. Enormous collections like that aren't going to get all listened to anyway, and clearly wouldn't have been bought. And any wrongdoing is in the downloading not the leaving around for others to see. So are they going to go after all those passing disks to friends too, or is it just the easy targets they amuse themselves with?
"And any wrongdoing is in the downloading not the leaving around for others to see."
I'm not sure if the law changed, after Mandy had a nice holiday on a rich man's yacht, but it used to be that the downloading was not illegal. It was the provision or 'making available' that was against copyright legislation.
A legal eagle may be along in a minute.
"but it used to be that the downloading was not illegal"
Correct, well it's not a criminal offence
The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, as amended by the Copyright and Trade Marks (Offences and Enforcement) Act 2002, currently protects copyrighted materials. People who download copyrighted recordings without permission face civil actions. Downloading can also constitute a criminal offence IF the downloader distributes the material.
"File Share ILLEGALLY convited onver somethign that is not a crime....." Did you ever go to School ? Did your spell checker just give up ? Sharing copyrighted songs is illegal.
"i whould question how they got the so called proof in the first place...." whould ?
"Scottland, now a puppet in the hands of of international terrorists...." Scotland (1t) international terrorists..... You lost me m8
"File Share ILLEGALLY convited onver somethign that is not a crime...."
Sorry Mectron, it is.
Downloading a file illicit, distributing a file is illegal.
E.g torrents download & upload at the same time and so CAN be illegal (depending on whether you are downloading 'Barry Trotter & the Half-Witted Audience or a Linux installatfion CD).
Actually can't really understand having 30,000 songs without words, but why on earth did she need to file share them or is this more a case of not understanding that when you download them it also uploads for other people?
Were there 30,000 individual songs or just 30,000 uploads? Can imagine the same song getting uploaded countless times if people request it.
Something odd going on...
>> any wrongdoing is in the downloading not the leaving around for others to see.
You do understand the concept of file sharing?
The consequences of hosting an archive of 30,000 unlicensed files, ready for downloading, and further, unlicensed, redistribution?
It doesn't matter that it is dear old Granny who is playing Lady Bountiful with other eople's property.
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