[OT] Pirate software in Germany?

[Judy Perry]

If people are indeed stealing/frauding, then you get a warrant.  You issue 
DMCA takedowns.  Destroying what little is left of the 4th Amendment is 
not the answer because the 4th Amendment is larger in scope than the 
smaller issue of IP protection (which I support).

Judy

On Mon, 23 May 2011, Lynn Fredricks wrote:

> Arguments for and against these regulations are so filled with vitriol, lies
> and deception - its hard to know where to start.
>
> At first, I found the warrantless nature of this really offensive, but its
> by way of adding these replicators to a list of "closely regulated"
> industries. While I understand the arguments about those industries, it
> isn't only a matter that those others are protecting "consumers" and not
> "the man", but that these industries are inherently and regularly subject to
> abuse. IP like music certainly is abused. I don't find big companies and
> their lobbyists particularly sympathetic either, but then again, the same
> sorts that steal from them are also stealing from me. It isn't okay to steal
> from them because they are big. I wonder about those who try to justify it
> based on that argument (or that it really isn't stealing by way of
> definition or that somehow there is a benefit to the industry).
>
> As we progress towards a more technologically improved future, manufacturing
> is becoming so mobile and agile to set up that the only economic way to
> compete is through IP creation, ownership and licensing - who invents the
> "art". That's where societal and educational directives should be hand in
> hand in creating a society of creators instead of merely one of consumers.
>
> Anyway - I just spent the last 30 minutes reviewing and sending DMCA
> takedown notices to various download sites like filesonic and fileserve,
> because pirates had uploaded products that I own and license to those sites.
> I am very much directly affected by this sort of thing too.