LOS ANGELES - Federal authorities have charged a Chicago man with copyright violations for allegedly uploading several episodes of Fox's "24" on the Internet before the show's season premiere earlier this year. Jorge Romero, 24, used a Web site to download the first four episodes of the sixth season of "24" and then uploaded them to LiveDigital.com, according to a federal complaint filed in Los Angeles on Friday. The episodes appeared online more than a week before their television debuts on Jan. 14 and 15. . . . more here . . . If convicted, Romero faces a maximum of three years in prison.
But its ok - for everyone else right..... Guess they will be shutting down you tube soon.....http://youtube.com/watch?v=eIdKV8kAXR8 How about break.com ? ...http://my.break.com/media/view.aspx?ContentID=208664 Then you got the rest of the web.........
Well it seems to me that they are going after the sources of the content, not the websites that host them. Even DailyMotion which hosted this content is not named, just the original uploader. It is clear to me, do not be the idiot who uploads copyright content. As far as posting it on your website after someone else uploads it - well I think that is fairly safe.
Why dont studios keep better track of their media? If the shows had yet to be shown how did they get on the internet? This is what I dont understand shows and movies always make it to the internet before they are released.
Probably they'll send copyright infringement notice, then action will be taken if they still don't act upon that
most major websites like youtube and break have disclaimers stating that the user is responsible for what they upload not the owner of the site.
No, they should not have sent a warning. That's why infringement is so out of control. All the idiots doing it think they'll get warned--then they'll stop. I say go after them hard out of the gate. No warnings, no notices and no prying. Just let them build up damages and hit them with everything you can.