You,ll love this article folks it single handedly undermines all the waffle put out this year by the MPAA. (PS: Its 3 pages long)
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2019314,00.aspWhat if there was an easily accessible source of illegally copyrighted materials, with a search engine, on a site that had participated in a press release with the MPAA itself, touting new automated measures to prevent piracy? Wouldn't the MPAA see the forest for the trees and quickly crack down on the offender?
As it turns out, apparently not.
As for the UK sitcoms available on the site, Eddy Leviten, who heads the communications department at FACT, said Friday that the agency's hands were tied, as it's a site hosted within the U.S.
Remember that the original story pointed out that Guba's sci-fi section contained numerous examples of TV shows, from Star Trek to Stargate SG1. Each file may be watched on the site, without special software, in its entirety, then downloaded to a user's hard drive, or transcoded into a format for playback onto an Apple iPod or Sony PSP.
In February, the MPAA filed suit against sites including TorrentSpy and BTHub, arguing that even links to copyrighted content encourage people to download illegally. Meanwhile, Guba happily provides copyrighted content to the public. And the MPAA has utterly lost the moral high ground, if it hadn't already.
The only conclusion I can draw from this is that the Guba archive is an MPAA-sanctioned supply of copyrighted content
Seriously, if a site provides downloadable content using an MPAA-approved filtering algorithm to weed out copyrighted content, isn't that a safe argument that downloaders should be free from liability?
One word folks
Hypocrites.
