MGM is suing Kentwood, Michigan man for DLing movies

(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

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

Originally Posted by 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.

Originally Posted by adam

Originally Posted by 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)

Originally Posted by VideoTechMan

Originally Posted by gadgetguy

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.

Originally Posted by gadgetguy

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

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.

Ann Arbor here

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

Originally Posted by gadgetguy

(Can you drive to Oz from California?)

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

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Now what do they consider personally affordable, 8)

Originally Posted by gadgetguy

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

Yeah, i was just thinking about reporting you for Threadjacking

Originally Posted by Dr.Gee

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

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.