Is it a civil or criminal offence?
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Is it a civil or criminal offence?
~Wille
Thorolf was thus armed. Then Thorolf became so furious that he cast his shield on his back, and, grasping his halberd with both hands, bounded forward dealing cut and thrust on either side. Men sprang away from him both ways, but he slew many. Thus he cleared the way forward to earl Hring's standard, and then nothing could stop him. He slew the man who bore the earl's standard, and cut down the standard-pole. After that he lunged with his halberd at the earl's breast, driving it right through mail and body, so that it came out at the shoulders; and he lifted him up on the halberd over his head, and planted the butt-end in the ground. There on the weapon the earl breathed out his life in sight of all, both friends and foes. [...] 53, Egil's Saga- The pranks played on the knight Jean de Joinville, 1249, 7th crusade.I must tell you here of some amusing tricks the Comte d'Eu played on us. I had made a sort of house for myself in which my knights and I used to eat, sitting so as to get the light from the door, which, as it happened, faced the Comte d'Eu's quarters. The count, who was a very ingenious fellow, had rigged up a miniature ballistic machine with which he could throw stones into my tent. He would watch us as we were having our meal, adjust his machine to suit the length of our table, and then let fly at us, breaking our pots and glasses.
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Originally Posted by Finn
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Civil. In the UK at least.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...l-economy-bill
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Re: Filesharing
Done to death in this thread http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...517634&page=38
Except it isn't by any definition which is why if I walk into a store and walk out with a product without paying the police are called but if I pirate something and I am caught then the police do not come knocking, the usual response is a civil lawsuit. In fact the only time online piracy results in criminal prosecution historically is when it is done on a commercial scale.
I can't believe people have trouble with this rather basic and simple concept. As I have already established I believe in this thread (yet am continuously forced to repeat) is it also theft to lend a book of someone? The only difference is you've downloaded it. I have numerous books in my posession that I did not purchase but were given and that means I'll never pay for them. Someone else has paid for them but I have not so apparently I have stolen. If I record something on VHS, or from the radio in days gone by, theft? I think not. It is arbitrarily and nonsensical to label it as theft and has never been so, the only difference is in the scale. Ive borrowed games many times off people who've paid for them, that makes me a thief? Ridiculous.
There are many utilitarian arguements for discouraging mass utilisation of file sharing and the harm to the industries but from a philosophical or more importantly LEGAL aspect then no it is not theft.
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Re: Filesharing
Ok, thanks.
~Wille
Thorolf was thus armed. Then Thorolf became so furious that he cast his shield on his back, and, grasping his halberd with both hands, bounded forward dealing cut and thrust on either side. Men sprang away from him both ways, but he slew many. Thus he cleared the way forward to earl Hring's standard, and then nothing could stop him. He slew the man who bore the earl's standard, and cut down the standard-pole. After that he lunged with his halberd at the earl's breast, driving it right through mail and body, so that it came out at the shoulders; and he lifted him up on the halberd over his head, and planted the butt-end in the ground. There on the weapon the earl breathed out his life in sight of all, both friends and foes. [...] 53, Egil's Saga- The pranks played on the knight Jean de Joinville, 1249, 7th crusade.I must tell you here of some amusing tricks the Comte d'Eu played on us. I had made a sort of house for myself in which my knights and I used to eat, sitting so as to get the light from the door, which, as it happened, faced the Comte d'Eu's quarters. The count, who was a very ingenious fellow, had rigged up a miniature ballistic machine with which he could throw stones into my tent. He would watch us as we were having our meal, adjust his machine to suit the length of our table, and then let fly at us, breaking our pots and glasses.
http://imgur.com/a/DMm19
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Question answered. Thread closed.
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