Police Arrest Man In UK For Piracy

[Builder]

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I'm done arguing. These aren't conversations, these are you taking my points and spitting them back at me while whining about how there's no other way besides piracy. It's not a fallacy, I believe in moral hierarchies, and in my mind, your access to a specific kind of porn is not as important as several other issues, which you as a person born of massive privilege should recognize. I'm not saying it's blatantly unimportant, I just don't see it being as important. You made so many errors in the above post that correct them would not be worth my time. It's barely worth my time to write this post, but my buildbot is hanging on a null pointer exception that I'm nowhere close to solving and I thought this would be an opportune time to respond.

 

I'm not going to convince you, you've already convinced yourself many times over that you're right. Any doubt you used to have on the subject has been systematically eliminated by your confirmation bias, and I truly do feel sorry for you. Perhaps some day your mind will change, or you'll get arrested. I frankly don't care about the subject anymore, I'll be fine here with my Spotify and Netflix and my legitimate use of torrents, and you can be happy with your free porn. We can all be happy, the question is simply of whether or not we assume any burden of proof in doing so.

[LAwLz]

I'm done arguing. These aren't conversations, these are you taking my points and spitting them back at me while whining about how there's no other way besides piracy. It's not a fallacy, I believe in moral hierarchies, and in my mind, your access to a specific kind of porn is not as important as several other issues, which you as a person born of massive privilege should recognize. I'm not saying it's blatantly unimportant, I just don't see it being as important. You made so many errors in the above post that correct them would not be worth my time. It's barely worth my time to write this post, but my buildbot is hanging on a null pointer exception that I'm nowhere close to solving and I thought this would be an opportune time to respond.

 

I'm not going to convince you, you've already convinced yourself many times over that you're right. Any doubt you used to have on the subject has been systematically eliminated by your confirmation bias, and I truly do feel sorry for you. Perhaps some day your mind will change, or you'll get arrested. I frankly don't care about the subject anymore, I'll be fine here with my Spotify and Netflix and my legitimate use of torrents, and you can be happy with your free porn. We can all be happy, the question is simply of whether or not we assume any burden of proof in doing so.

It is a fallacy because the issues you brought up are completely unrelated to my actions. Me downloading a certain time of porn has absolutely no effect on anyone other than me being happier. If the type of porn I downloaded had an effect on what kind of medicines people in Africa had access to then you would have had a point, but it does not and therefore it is a fallacy. Just saying "You made so many errors in the above post that correct them would not be worth my time" is very arrogant.

Also, please stop with the ad hominem. my gender or race has absolutely nothing to do with the conversation. It's just another fallacy you've resorted it, probably because you don't have any objective response.

 

If you think the examples I bought up are biased then feel free to prove the opposite. I have put down solid evidence and got support from people you claim I am hurting. You can't just go "nope that isn't valid because it doesn't agree with my predetermined conclusion, so therefore you are the biased one". Don't you realize how silly that sounds?

[Entropy]

I guess they are just trying to scare people, show them that they are taking it seriously. In the hopes to deter people from pirating.

I don't see how they can charge him though he clearly wasn't hosting the files just allowing people on his server.

Governments that attempt to dissuade people from doing certain things by arresting and unlawfully imprisoning individuals who haven't committed a crime tend to spark some outrage, not a stop to the thing they're attempting to stop.

[shiftberry]

that was so chinese...

[DigitalHermit]

Again, you have no right to take what other people have made simply because it's unavailable and you want it.

 

Then what practical solution do you suggest in obtaining said material?

 

If you can please enlighen me...

[LAwLz]

Then what practical solution do you suggest in obtaining said material?

 

If you can please enlighen me...

His answer to that is "you're a privileged white male. People are dying in Africa so therefore you should not complain" as if my gender or race has anything to do with the conversation, or as if what I watch on my spare time will affect the people in Africa in any way shape or form. At least that's the reply I got when I asked him earlier.

Don't have access to it legally? Then don't watch it.

 

Because you know, ignoring a distribution problem will surely fix it, right? (Heavy sarcasm)

[Builder]

Then what practical solution do you suggest in obtaining said material?

 

If you can please enlighen me...

If you want it enough to obtain it legally, then travel to wherever it is sold, buy it, and bring it back. Make a friend in that country, or find a business that imports. The world is not required to give you what you desire. Digital entertainment is a luxury, not a right.

[gundershot]

I can't see a legitimate argument supporting their decision.

[APrettyCoolWalrus]

I thought it was going to be legal to pirate in the UK

[Murdoch]

I thought it was going to be legal to pirate in the UK

 

Not at all. That's a total misconception largely due to people's complete lack of knowledge of the 'ISP's voluntary agreement to send out warning letters to pirates'.

 

In short, the UK Government passed a new law to restrict the internet connections of known pirates (part of the Digital Economy Act 2010), but after some court action and consideration by OFCOM, it was deemed unworkable and was thrown out. A washed down version was agreed to by the major ISPs, they will send out warning letters to known pirates, but there are to be no punitive measures if they are just ignored. This is not part of any law, it's just a voluntary agreement by the major ISPs. The law regarding piracy remains unchanged.

 

Somehow that's given some people the impression that copyright infringement is now legal?