Three Frenchmen Face 5 Years and $700,000 for Running a File Sharing Site

That is crazy, especially since they are only providing the links not the files themselves!!!! I love the picture of the frog!

How is it illegal to just host the links... Well im not a lawyer so i wouldn't know the law. :D

Inspector:

How is it illegal to just host the links... Well im not a lawyer so i wouldn't know the law. :D

wait a minute ! a HH pal that 's Canadian [coolice]  recently mentioned something about reading a 5 inch thick lawbook recently &.might be able to shed some light on the matter   other than that ...I wonder if the frog is on the menu.

rrplay:

I wonder if the frog is on the menu

Seems that five three of them are.

The laws of this land are far too ambiguous for me to start trying to dissect French law too. If it's illegal there, then they're big boys and probably knew what they were into before they started enabling people to share copyrighted material. Whether it's right or wrong is another matter, and it is, of course, moot.

Edit: Oldfart Syndrome.

realneil:

Seems that 5 of them are.

I thought there were only 3 men accused of the file linking? and yep they did know what they were doing. by posting and sharing the illegal links.

what's surprising is that the site was in the top 200 for some time  & no wonder with that one.

It is 3 :), i think realneil misread the 5 years sentence :)

Oops!, Oldfart syndrome strikes again,..........

I think Neil was thinking of the two others who are accused of attacking hotel maids :P

I just wonder if they are going to go after the hosts in the middle east like packistan or in Russia, then they might need to turn it into an international incident? Maybe that is why they are going to use Lockheed issue to allow the gvmnt to wag real war when assaulted electronically? If that is the case then why are they not going after China? They have stolen every creative property known to man! I mean seriously, a Chinese Harry Potter with a Communist twist?

That is the main issue. Most of these host sites are coming from the eastern hemisphere and they all tend to think that they deserve it for free. Much like the drug problem, it doesn't do much good to go after the Addict, you must take out the dealer!

To me this is like the Window tint laws. They say it is for the gangbangers and supposed to protect officers. Yet in Cali the only ones getting the expensive tickets are the respectable citizens, even those Mercedes with factory tint more than 5%, while all the gangers still drive around with limo tint! The best solution would be to just stop all international distribution! or at least impose those beloved sanctions on the countries that allow cameras in the theatres?

Since "none of the illicit content is actually hosted on Liberty Land's servers" I don't think the Liberty Land website can be held liable, but then again France is known for doing weird things and being strange and im sure this could apply to their legal system and copyright laws as well :p

I doubt they will get the max sentence of 5 years and $700,000 in fines and most likely they will settle out of court for just some cash. I am sure the site was up for so long because they were trying to build a solid case against the 3 men.