Charlie_PS2 found guilty

[rms2001]

Originally Posted by Quall999

yah, Some things are just stupid. There is no room for common sense in coart rooms (refers to mcD's case). I mean, there was a 12 year old girl fined well over $100,000 for downloading 1 song off of the internet. Wow, such a henious crime. Think should would have gotten the same sentencing if she stole the whole CD strait from a record store? Although this is unrelated to Davids case, it just shows how most priority's are more important than a persons well being.

It all revolves back to being made an example of. Being 12 and being sued wasn’t really the point. The point was the IRAA could and did take this girl and make an example out of her. This showed every one had they had the balls to do it in hopes that it would discourage others from downloading. Not that it really did a lot of good, downloading just went more underground.

As for the laws in the UK (and other co British ruled land) on chips is kinda weird. Sony was not really saying making the back ups were illegal, it was how it was being played that was illegal. They were going on the basis that the chip bypassed their code and they felt afraid by that.

Just like this 12 year old girl, Charlie is just a example I’m sure there will be more as time gos on too.