Re: [7.8.2002 44916] Notice of Copyright Infringement

From: Meritt James (meritt_jamesat_private)
Date: Thu Jul 11 2002 - 12:09:40 PDT

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    You really think a jury will be able to differentiate between "it is"
    and "it is called"?
    
    Vicne wrote:
    > 
    > Yea, but then it would be a lesser offence no?  I'm not to familiar with
    > the DMCA, or law for that matter, but wouldn't a simple name trademark
    > violation be less then a DMCA violation?
    > 
    > I don't think it would be to hard to catch people, it just takes a p2p
    > client and a simple search for their titles, then just write down the ip
    > addresses and report them.
    > 
    > But I am curious now, would they be able to build a case without
    > validating that the content is actually theirs, not just the name?
    > 
    > On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 05:41, vodkaat_private wrote:
    > > Vicne said:
    > > > That could be porn you were hiding from your parents, so you renamed it
    > > > to movies they hate, so they wouldn't look at it.
    > >
    > > If that was the case...
    > >
    > > You're still using their copyrighted movie titles on your porn and
    > > distributing them as property of those movie companies.
    > >
    > > It's kinda like me taking bottles of water and putting "Coca Cola" labels on
    > > them, and giving them out for free.
    > >
    > > I wonder how the MPAA is catching people though.  Do they have like p2p
    > > spider bots or something?
    > >
    > >
    > >
    
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