MGM is suing Kentwood, Michigan man for DLing movies

[Noahtuck]

(Grand Rapids, January 18, 2006, 6:04 pm) A Kentwood man is in trouble for allegedly downloading movies off the Internet illegally.

This is about 15 minutes from me.

Oop's

It say's MGM wants $30,000.00 for each movie he DLed

Direct link to the vid.
http://video.woodtv.com/vid.wvx.php?video_id=2163&ad_id=10

Link to the page, for some reason they changed their news site and now the vid's wont load for me unless i shut off my software firewall, but you can link directly to the vid. above.
http://video.woodtv.com/index.php?video_id=2163

[gadgetguy]

Should be interesting to try to follow this story (very near me, as well).

[Noahtuck]

Yeah but i try to follow alot of news items and most always seem to vanish and you never find out what happened.

I also like how they spend like 10 seconds on the actual story with pretty much ZERO details and spend the rest of the time talking about bit torrents giving everyone a name to search for so now even more people can do it

[VideoTechMan]

Should be interesting to try to follow this story (very near me, as well).

As with me also....I live 30 miles SW of Kentwood, and I work in GR everyday, going to Kentwood on a regular basis.....I havent seen it on the local news though.

VTM

[adam]

I also like how they spend like 10 seconds on the actual story with pretty much ZERO details and spend the rest of the time talking about bit torrents giving everyone a name to search for so now even more people can do it

Or how they always interview the resident computer geek who brags about how easy it is but just shows how little they actually know about the process. Was interesting to see a girl geek this time though.

[gadgetguy]

Maybe we should hold a convention...

[Noahtuck]

I also like how they spend like 10 seconds on the actual story with pretty much ZERO details and spend the rest of the time talking about bit torrents giving everyone a name to search for so now even more people can do it

Or how they always interview the resident computer geek who brags about how easy it is but just shows how little they actually know about the process. Was interesting to see a girl geek this time though.

Yeah, i thought a few things including that when i watched the vid 8)

Should be interesting to try to follow this story (very near me, as well).

As with me also....I live 30 miles SW of Kentwood, and I work in GR everyday, going to Kentwood on a regular basis.....I havent seen it on the local news though.

VTM

Yeah, i never saw it on that local channel either, which i watch alot for news, but i was telling my buddie about some other stuff i saw on that news channel and he told mme about it so i went to their site to look for it, i usually go there once a week to see what's up and what i missed.

Maybe we should hold a convention...

No Shit!!! i knew Yoda313 was in mich. and i saw, i think your location, but mich. is pretty big but i never knew there were 3 of us that close
But Yoda would have a few hour (at least) drive where we would have a few minutes of driving, but i remember him complaining once about people driving too fast here on the highways so it actually might take him half a day driving like my grandmother, if he is allowed to leave home that long














Just messing with ya :P

[adam]

For those of you in Michigan, its no coincidence that this is hitting close to home. Note that the guy is being sued for downloading not uploading. The first real higher court ruling on P2P infringements just came down last month and it involved downloading, not uploading, and a Chicago resident. The law is well settled in this jurisdiction now (6th Circuit= Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee) and basically the courts have shown that they will throw the book at downloaders. That's why the suit is being brought here. You can probably expect alot more too.

[gadgetguy]

No Shit!!! i knew Yoda313 was in mich. and i saw, i think your location, but mich. is pretty big but i never knew there were 3 of us that close laugh.gif
But Yoda would have a few hour (at least) drive where we would have a few minutes of driving, but i remember him complaining once about people driving too fast here on the highways so it actually might take him half a day driving like my grandmother, if he is allowed to leave home that long

I know that Stormin Norman is over in the Brighton area, so he'd have to drive a couple hours too. Still, it could be doable. Hmmmm...

[Guest]

Ann Arbor here

[gadgetguy]

Ann Arbor here

So you can pick up Norman on the way.

[Supreme2k]

Hell, I'm in.

I'm in N. Cali, so I could pick up the States-siders on the way, or I could go the other way and pick up the international crew (Can you drive to Oz from California?)

[gadgetguy]

(Can you drive to Oz from California?)

Maybe with this car.
http://www.moller.com/skycar/

(Edit: Wow, we really got off topic in this off topic topic.)

[Guest]

This could be done in Brighton,Lansing or jackson. I'm in.

[Noahtuck]

(Can you drive to Oz from California?)

Maybe with this car.
http://www.moller.com/skycar/

Moller International has developed the first and only feasible, personally affordable, personal vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) vehicle the world has ever seen.

Now what do they consider personally affordable, 8)

(Edit: Wow, we really got off topic in this off topic topic.)

Yeah, i was just thinking about reporting you for Threadjacking

This could be done in Brighton,Lansing or jackson. I'm in.

I have this weird Phobia that i can't make trips longer than 15 minutes on more than 2 wheels

[Doramius]

If the guy was smarter, he'd have downloaded the chapters of the movie individually and put them back together using DVD Shrink or some other free software. It's a little more noticeable when you're DLing multiple 7.6GB files over a period of several hours. That's like lighting illegal fireworks in the same spot for a few hours and hope nobody reports it or a cop doesn't see it.

[gadgetguy]

It's a little more noticeable when you're DLing multiple 7.6GB files over a period of several hours.

Where did you get that? I didn't think they gave that much information in the news report.

[sullen]

gadgetguy sent me in this direction. This is rich. I don't live in Lansing anymore, instead Battle Creek. Still "close to home" for me. Everytime there is an article or news story about Bit Torrent it gets bigger. I personally love the stories about the big Torrent sites located in countries that are sympathetic with lax copyright infringement laws. I won't mention names but we all know who the real "pirates" are on the internet.

[Craig Tucker]

This could be done in Brighton,Lansing or jackson. I'm in.

I am only a couple of hours from Brighton, different Brighton though

[yoda313]

This could be done in Brighton,Lansing or jackson. I'm in.

I am only a couple of hours from Brighton, different Brighton though

So I guess that would be "old brighton" then huh????

[Craig Tucker]

Gay Brighton

http://gay.brighton.co.uk/

[Doramius]

It's a little more noticeable when you're DLing multiple 7.6GB files over a period of several hours.

Where did you get that? I didn't think they gave that much information in the news report.

How big was the last movie ISO file you saw? Download 10 movies in 2-3 days and you're bandwidth is gonna show it. For a company it may not be much to see a spike, but for a residence they will take notice.