What has been said about TPB trial

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“Threatening Vulnerabilities in the Consumer Electronics Retail Industry”

The following simple comparisons should be forwarded to anyone in the
consumer electronics or phone device retail industry.

With the current American and International court cases, especially in
regard to abstract information related to common activities or
technologies and the need to teach consumers how to use their devices,
your business and lives depend on a thorough and widespread review and
understanding of the current legal implications of teaching a kid how
to use their new cell phone.

First, a historical topic which has been thoroughly reviewed in both
American and international courts, setting a good precedent and
comparison for the current situations:

“Anarchist CookBook” — a collection of text files that explain how to
mix vinegar with baking soda to create a gradeschool volcano, also is
considered by American law to be a catalyst for urban terrorism. What
is it? A set of instructions, the basics, to create or use various
things.

This, just like how you teach your new cell phone users how to move
files around or access common interface systems like downloading or
sending content between each other, is considered by the new American
(and International) law to be an instruction on how to engage in
various nefarious activities, such as file or content sharing or
related redistribution by your clients.

The current definition of both American and International policy does
not clearly distinguish the difference between explaining to someone
the obvious resources available to them, like an I-Phone touch screen
or a set of buttons on a conventional device, versus explaining to
them, with intent, the methods of redistributing and exporting
restricted weapons technology — no less more common things like media
files or images and content.

As research into various legal policy will elucidate, the various
threats to your integrity strive to claim that a simple helper who
teaches granny how to push the record video and then bring the vhs
cassette over to the public community center to watch a soap opera as
a group, is such a severe threat to American commerce and thus wish to
put YOU in jail for the blatantly criminal activity of teaching
someone how to push a button.

With modern technology, especially that which is more complex to use
even the most basic functions, this weeks’ implication is that YOUR
TEACHING A KID TO MOVE PICTURES ON TO STORAGE CARD OR TO SEND MESSAGES
OR CONTENT TO THEIR PEERS is exactly similar to the charges filed in
the various courts and legal systems resulting in major criminal fines
and IMPRISONMENT for YOUR intentional violations of federal law or
conspiracy to entice others to do so.

Though short and concise, please feel free to forward this to anyone
in the consumer electronics industry, as this current situation
carries severe implications for anyone openly giving friendly
instruction on how to use a device to consumers who MIGHT SOMEHOW
MISUSE IT.

Your lives, industry, and future depend on these issues being
thoroughly understood and reviewed in light of current legal
situations.

If these current legal situations hold, YOU, the EDUCATOR, are held
responsible for the misuse of whatever you teach or provide to them.

– For public distribution

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From all the reading, I would say that no connection has been shown between the TPB operators and those users of their service whom uploaded the torrent metadata file (which *might* allow connections to the user’s computers, *possibly* representing a location where the data *might* reside) (futhermore, that metadata point is irrespective of *if* the user has or doesn’t have rights to distribute such data - it would need to be proved first)…

It seems that the prosecution is looking for someone to blame. I say that Google is much more responsible for blame, as their service intentionally hunts for files, metadata and more! It’s their business! It’s what Google represents - the engine that finds and indexes as much as it can on the internet so we don’t have to. The Pirate Bay has only a few servers, and it’s the users that upload the torrent metadata. Google has THOUSANDS of servers in MANY countries, all continually hunting for all files. Which one is more to blame???

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