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Burnning, Selling, DVDs leads to criminal charges

the G-man

the G-man

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Rochester Man Charged with Copyright Infringement

  • Eugene DeBerger, 59, of Rochester, N.Y., was charged by criminal complaint with knowing infringement of copyright for purposes of private financial gain. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a fine of $250,000.

    Assistant U.S. Attorney Tiffany H. Lee, who is handling the case, stated that according to the complaint, between January 2007 and August 2010, the defendant bought legal copies of DVD movies and burned copies on his home computer. DeBerger then sold over 7,000 copies online at a greatly reduced price.

    Today’s charges are part of a larger department-wide effort led by the Department of Justice Task Force on Intellectual Property (IP Task Force). Attorney General Eric Holder created the IP Task Force to combat the growing number of domestic and international intellectual property crimes, protect the health and safety of American consumers, and safeguard the nation’s economic security against those who seek to profit illegally from American creativity, innovation and hard work.


I can see the need to protect property rights, but I'm not sure how bootleg DVDs threaten the health and safety of American consumers....
 
but I'm not sure how bootleg DVDs threaten the health and safety of American consumers....
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You can spend the money you save by buying pirated DVDs on booze and drugs. Or something ...
 
the G-man said:
Rochester Man Charged with Copyright Infringement

  • Eugene DeBerger, 59, of Rochester, N.Y., was charged by criminal complaint with knowing infringement of copyright for purposes of private financial gain. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a fine of $250,000.

    Assistant U.S. Attorney Tiffany H. Lee, who is handling the case, stated that according to the complaint, between January 2007 and August 2010, the defendant bought legal copies of DVD movies and burned copies on his home computer. DeBerger then sold over 7,000 copies online at a greatly reduced price.

    Today’s charges are part of a larger department-wide effort led by the Department of Justice Task Force on Intellectual Property (IP Task Force). Attorney General Eric Holder created the IP Task Force to combat the growing number of domestic and international intellectual property crimes, protect the health and safety of American consumers, and safeguard the nation’s economic security against those who seek to profit illegally from American creativity, innovation and hard work.


I can see the need to protect property rights, but I'm not sure how bootleg DVDs threaten the health and safety of American consumers....
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There's more to IP law than copyrights, you know. There are also things like patents and trademarks. Imagine someone makes a counterfeit drug, labels it "Zocor," and goes around selling it--even though the pills are made of nothing more than table sugar and food coloring. That's quite clearly putting people's safety and health at risk.
 
@ Maxwell House: Agreed. For drugs and that sort of thing, sure. On a side note, what about generic drugs? That would be somewhat of a problem there if they weren't allowed to keep making those for people who can't afford the name brand ones. One thing that they do need to do, is to make sure that there are quality checks to make sure that the generic drug is what it says it is and is the same as the name brand one.

As for what the man did, that's was wrong pure and simple. There's a difference between burning a copy of a movie for yourself and not selling it and doing what he did.

That's taking someone else's property and trying to make money off of it.
 
Re: Burning, Selling, DVDs leads to criminal charges

Maxwell House said:
the G-man said:
Rochester Man Charged with Copyright Infringement

  • Eugene DeBerger, 59, of Rochester, N.Y., was charged by criminal complaint with knowing infringement of copyright for purposes of private financial gain. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a fine of $250,000.

    Assistant U.S. Attorney Tiffany H. Lee, who is handling the case, stated that according to the complaint, between January 2007 and August 2010, the defendant bought legal copies of DVD movies and burned copies on his home computer. DeBerger then sold over 7,000 copies online at a greatly reduced price.

    Today’s charges are part of a larger department-wide effort led by the Department of Justice Task Force on Intellectual Property (IP Task Force). Attorney General Eric Holder created the IP Task Force to combat the growing number of domestic and international intellectual property crimes, protect the health and safety of American consumers, and safeguard the nation’s economic security against those who seek to profit illegally from American creativity, innovation and hard work.


I can see the need to protect property rights, but I'm not sure how bootleg DVDs threaten the health and safety of American consumers....
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There's more to IP law than copyrights, you know. There are also things like patents and trademarks. Imagine someone makes a counterfeit drug...
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Yeah, I thought of that. However, in an article about bootleg DVDs, it just seemed an odd thing to add. Almost like whomever wrote the press release just cut and paste it from another story.
 
Re: Burning, Selling, DVDs leads to criminal charges

the G-man said:
Maxwell House said:
the G-man said:
Rochester Man Charged with Copyright Infringement

  • Eugene DeBerger, 59, of Rochester, N.Y., was charged by criminal complaint with knowing infringement of copyright for purposes of private financial gain. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a fine of $250,000.

    Assistant U.S. Attorney Tiffany H. Lee, who is handling the case, stated that according to the complaint, between January 2007 and August 2010, the defendant bought legal copies of DVD movies and burned copies on his home computer. DeBerger then sold over 7,000 copies online at a greatly reduced price.

    Today’s charges are part of a larger department-wide effort led by the Department of Justice Task Force on Intellectual Property (IP Task Force). Attorney General Eric Holder created the IP Task Force to combat the growing number of domestic and international intellectual property crimes, protect the health and safety of American consumers, and safeguard the nation’s economic security against those who seek to profit illegally from American creativity, innovation and hard work.


I can see the need to protect property rights, but I'm not sure how bootleg DVDs threaten the health and safety of American consumers....
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There's more to IP law than copyrights, you know. There are also things like patents and trademarks. Imagine someone makes a counterfeit drug...
Click to expand...

Yeah, I thought of that. However, in an article about bootleg DVDs, it just seemed an odd thing to add. Almost like whomever wrote the press release just cut and paste it from another story.
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Seems clear to me it was just listing what the guy's duties were.

Now we know what type of DVD drive MS installed in the 360. LOL
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On the few occasions discs have shattered in high-speed drives it's more to do with the quality of the disc than it has anything to do with the drive.
 
the G-man said:
I can see the need to protect property rights, but I'm not sure how bootleg DVDs threaten the health and safety of American consumers....
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Hollywood is our defense industry's unofficial R&D.

The gadgets of James Bond, Jason Bourne, Ethan Hunt...
 
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