I recieved an E-Mail from the Five Dragons Acupuncture University today, they run www.kungfu-torrents.com.
There’s a Bittorrent tracker there that held a great deal of good material on Chinese and oriental traditions, healing and Martial Arts. It was all shared for research purposes and material was contributed by researchers. All under the Fair Use provisions of copyright law.
Not anymore.
A Hollywood lawyer has gone out of his way to make trouble for the site, by contacting copyright holders and offering to sue the webmaster personally, which has resulted in a very valuable resource being shutdown, at least for now. To win any copyright case would take many thousands of dollars and frankly, the MPAA has massively deep pockets.
It’s ridiculous, they see the word Bittorrent and leap to judgement, and we all lose out as a result. This actually ties in with an article I started writing last night on judgement. As soon as it’s finished I’ll put it online.
Casey Kochmer says:
yes, it makes me sad to see that
more signs on how fear is being used to shut down others in our culture
but in time, with time, MPAA will lose, simply becuase the fear they project, will reflect and destroy themselves from the inside out.
Patience
we will stand long after these jokers have had their day in court.
casey
18 March 2006, 5:49 pmTim says:
Is there a firm of lawyers and IT people who surf the web looking for things to sue for? It is ridiculous. We have a small beverage company in our state that is called “Polar”. When Coca-Cola began using Polar Bears in their advertisements with success, their attorneys tried to sue and limit the use of a bear for Polar. Don’t these guys have anything better to do?
18 March 2006, 10:09 pmablokecalledbloke says:
It’s job creation. The guy who runs kung-futorrents.com refers to these lawyers as Orcs, I prefer the word Wraith. A person who has lost a sense of right or wrong in the pursuit of thier goals. You can see this so sickeningly often in the corpoate world.
19 March 2006, 1:06 amCasey Kochmer says:
Coca-cola, is pretty evil actually, look into the company history and you will find heavy CIA ties. The CIA use coca-cola as a front for many years, since they were everywhere in the world, over time, many of the tactics of the CIA meandered into the upper levels of the company. Cross pollination of ideas and such… yuck.
I am not one for spy theories etc etc, but from the little bits i has come across on the web. Coca-cola is one bad nasty customer consumer pusher man. But check into it if you are bored some interesting reading on this one.
19 March 2006, 7:39 am