Wait! Those torrent clients are written with programming languages! We should sue the people who made the programming languages for encouraging piracy!
And pirates are using hardware to commit their dirty deeds!
Maybe this is how technological society crumbles, one lawsuit at a time.
That’s funny that you mention hardware, cause in Germany you pay a set fee for each device (13.19€ for a computer, 6.25€ for a phone) on purchase since it could be used to create copies of media.
I’m just getting my money’s worth, officer.
In Denmark it is lawful copies of a media. Problem is that almost all media is copyright protected and it is illegal to circumvent that. So essentially it is a free tax for the organization that represents the artists without any checks and balances to make sure those money actually get distributed to the artists afterwards.
So parents can sue gun companies right?
No, that’s different. People kill people, not guns.
/s
Torrent clients don’t download torrents, people download torrents. See? No difference.
Actually, torrent clients download files, not torrents.
Point, set, match!
They should sue movie producers. After all, they regularly supply the pirates with fresh wares.
With that logic they should sue the creators of the AV1 codec as well. Lots of pirated movies will be encoded with it…
lol good luck tracking down someone who releases software into the wild.
Brb downloading the piratebay on the piratebay
How did the saying go? [NOUN_1] don’t [VERB] [NOUN_2], it’s people that [VERB] [NOUN_2].
Clowns don’t entertain people, it’s people that kill clowns?
Isn’t that rule 33 of Zombieland?
Idunno, probably? 🤷
It’s pretty easy: there’s no culpability on either side. It’s not either-or. If guns and ammo and knife manufacturers are not responsible for murder than neither are ISPs and software developers responsible for piracy.
If the courts don’t like that an IP isn’t a person, then they can pressure congress to change the laws. Until then, everyone can go fuck off
