Here's a good question: Why doesn't anyone host servers in Spain? It's perfectly legal there to fileshare without any profit. I'm glad that finally I see a country not giving a f**k about U.S. law and governing their own country with their own laws. America needs to stop coercing other countries, such as Sweden, to obey American laws. This shows that lesser economically empowered countries can stand up to the snobby government and anti-piracy companies that think they can sue pretty much anybody they desire (whether in the country or not). Most of the time, though, they fail in successfully prosecuting denizens in other countries.

As I said before, filesharing is not bad but in our nature to learn new things and new ideas to help innovate the world. Companies (with their millions in access) don't have enough brains or are too hidebound in trying to think of a way for media lovers, education lovers, and anybody else to give the consumers what they want, when they want it, and at a low, resonable price. In my opinion, I think there should be less talk about abstract rep. points and more talk on filesharing and its current stance and where it should go before the U.S. and any other bothersome force gets the better of all of us (no matter where you live).

As I just currently read, Swizz Beatz (an American rapper) has a potential in being involved some way in the Megaupload case which I find repulsive that the Feds need him for a substantial evidence of copyright infringement (he only supported Megaupload; he was not involved in any operations in the site). Anyways, this battle of filesharing and the legality of it needs to stop not only in the U.S. (where they are strict about it), but also globally.

I had no intention of writing this much, but I hope you ,KAT members, enjoyed my take on the whole situation. I would love to see your take on this "article". By the way, please, no one put any posts on top of this one (put posts underneath this one when replying to my post; I want to make this on top of my wall for a while). Spread the ideas of this article to your friends on KAT and anybody else and keep spreading ideas and innovations to the world (one upload at a time)! :) Thanks for reading.

Thanx for sharing. Very to the point and right on.One download at a time love it . Cheers

A) You need to use paragraphs otherwise people will get bored and only read the first 2-3 lines

B) What exactly is it supposed to be helping? I understand your viewpoint, but not that this is a 'help' article for people who have copyright infringement issues (which is implied in the title)

Totally agree with you, I like the cut of your jib.
Also you can tick the option to keep your post at the top of every page.

The U.S.A. now has a law that empowers all the IP service providers in our country (our Cable Internet Service companies) to engage in monitoring activities, snooping on their customers Internet download activities. Along with that, the Music and Film Industry is conducting similar snoop activities. They work hand-in-hand to identify pirates, and then the cable IP companies send out "snotty-grams" by email, warning us to remove any copyrighted movies or music from our PCs.
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This "warning process" allows for up to 7 warning letters before the IP service provider will cancel or block our access to the Internet. In some places here (like where I live) there is really only ONE decent Internet service provider (and a couple "wannabe's" maybe. So having our Internet blocked after 7 warning letters (for an indeterminate amount of time - not forever - the IP company has to make money somehow) will be VERY inconvenient.
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Not to mention that it opens the door wide to lawsuits!

It's okay to voice an opinion about an entity, it's only when you start talking about specific people/arguing that it tends to get out of hand.

Technically speaking, ISP cannot block or terminate your contract with them. There in the money making business, not losing money.Plus its called the 6 Strike system. All they really do is throttle your internet.

Don't worry, I'm not trying to start an argument here

Spain might not care but if the bill the people in the EU have proposed passes it won't matter what Spain thinks. Since it's not really the US pushing these bills in other countries. A lot of countries have started to push towards the same thing the US is before the US did. Some research should be done before stating that America is coercing countries to do things they are already do well before the US got involved.


Another misconception. See above comment.

Actually they can and do. I know this from personal experience working for an ISP that sent out letters. ISP's also do not have to give 6 warnings. Most have 3. 6 is the limit before disconnection will happen. As for throttling, most ISP's go this route. It's easier and most people don't really know they get throttled as fast as when disconnected.

Actually they can and do. I know this from personal experience working for an ISP that sent out letters. ISP's also do not have to give 6 warnings. Most have 3. 6 is the limit before disconnection will happen. As for throttling, most ISP's go this route. It's easier and most people don't really know they get throttled as fast as when disconnected.

There are way more than just one good provider. It all depends on where you live. Some states are better than others. Some of the best ISP's are the small no name ones. As for them removing people of their service and needing to make money. There is a figure that mediacom and QWEST used when enforcing these removals. Something like for every 1 customer they remove, 3 more sign up. And of those that are removed and are later eligible to reconnect, most do.
As for lawsuits, from who?