Comments | _leareth: Anime downloaders sued in Singapore settle, disappear

_leareth

Anime downloaders sued in Singapore settle, disappear

Feb 23, 2010 09:36

Anime downloaders sued in Singapore settle, disappear

The two men at the heart of the first online downloading lawsuit here have backed down from contesting the suit filed against them by a group of Japanese anime studios ( Read more... )

anime, law:copyright, city:singapore, internet

Comments 6

j3ffu February 22 2010, 23:14:50 UTC

Well, they didn't really have any ground to stand on right?

_leareth February 22 2010, 23:29:40 UTC

Probably not, but I haven't really been following this case too closely. The article makes it sound more like a question of financial resources, though, particularly in light of the defendants' previous comments about fighting the case.

xandrabelle February 23 2010, 01:28:27 UTC

If it costs 50 to 80 thousand to try to defend the case, its no wonder that everyone just caves and settles out of court. There's no way anyone has the funds to throw away on a case that's not a sure win.

_leareth February 23 2010, 01:39:33 UTC

Welcome to my world XD sort of, not really at this point, might be my world in a couple of years

Didja hear about the Australian gamer who settled with Nintendo for $1.5 million for uploading the New Super Mario Bros? :3

xandrabelle February 23 2010, 06:42:03 UTC

I see all this as big business laying a heavy stick on the few unlucky souls that they manage to net. Although I guess they want to set up examples, the problem is if they consistently win, they might become far too litigous. Besides, boundaries might become so broad that it might soon be a crime to even accidentally click on the wrong youtube video.

_leareth February 23 2010, 11:48:24 UTC

I see all this as big business laying a heavy stick on the few unlucky souls that they manage to net.

Certainly when it comes to individual downloaders I agree that it's the case, however I'd argue that going after specific uploaders as Nintendo did is a far better strategy than suing a few downloaders who were unlulcky enough to be picked out of the thousands of people who would have downloaded that file.

Although I guess they want to set up examples, the problem is if they consistently win, they might become far too litigous.

Some already are -- the RIAA and the movie industry in America being the best examples. It hasn't worked out for them too well either in terms of PR (the RIAA) or even legally (the movie industry a few weeks ago).

Besides, boundaries might become so broad that it might soon be a crime to even accidentally click on the wrong youtube video.We'll have to see what's in the ACTA agreement, I suppose. As far as YouTube goes, however, they already have a take-down policy available to content owners to remove ( ... )