Saturday, May 5, 2012

The criminal case against the user

And yesterday it was announced that the first criminal case against the user social network ... A 26 -year-old user, according to the Office of ... Proceedings under Article 146 of the Criminal Code (violation of copyright and neighboring rights ) initiated at the request of the representative of record companies, ... The department ... Lawyers believe that the most probable sentence - two years probation.

On the one hand, it has already heard voices of approval at last came to the decision, there is some kind of legal practice. A young man, of course, not plant, just frightened, but the PR effect will be massive: 10 users think twice before you put in a music or video network. And even in the enforcement of its logic is planned in October last year the court had already released ...

However, by this logic, of course, there are questions. Even someone who considers himself an uncompromising defender of copyright, can not they do not ask.

First of all, did not we seen a show, pre-planned process? . December 31 a deadline, which is ...

The network ... We can assume that much of it illegal. It is difficult to believe that the studio recording ... Obviously, this is selective enforcement. Want a Web company to market recovery has begun with such an unhealthy precedent? . What if management ...