\nSubpoenas aren’t court cases
\nMeanwhile, subpoenas mean very little in and of themselves. They’re simply documents calling for an appearance in court to give testimony about something.<\/p>\n
And file sharing is neither illegal nor a crime. It’s possible copyright infringement, pure and very simple.<\/p>\n
And yet the labels have managed to convince the mainstream media that a subpoena equals a prosecution, and that recipients are convicted thieves.<\/p>\n
However, file sharing means sharing, not stealing.<\/p>\n
No one has been deprived of something they used to own, no money has changed hands and in fact, file sharing could be said to represent a form of unpaid advertising for artists the labels supposedly represent.<\/p>\n
Despite the many mainstream reports of the numbers of people ‘prosecuted’ so far, not one of the victims has ever appeared before a judge.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It’s pretty interesting to see how people misinterpret the law, especially after learning some basic legal principles in school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
and here is why: they’ve been convinced that subpoenas are court cases, and that copyright infringement is a crime, and they’ve subsequently convinced the masses of the same. Here’s an excerpt from p2pnet that sums it up: Subpoenas aren’t court cases Meanwhile, subpoenas mean very little in and of themselves. They’re simply documents calling for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irasnyder.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irasnyder.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irasnyder.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irasnyder.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irasnyder.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.irasnyder.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irasnyder.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irasnyder.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irasnyder.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}