{"id":75822,"date":"2009-12-11T05:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091210\/1242497293.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-11T05:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T10:10:00","slug":"anti-piracy-group-says-that-just-talking-about-file-sharing-should-be-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/75822","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Piracy Group Says That Just Talking About File Sharing Should Be Illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, we noted that the Dutch Usenet community FTD was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20090517\/0235414904.shtml\">suing<\/a> BREIN, the local &#8220;anti-piracy&#8221; group, for suggesting that FTD was a criminal operation.  As the case moves forward, FTD is pointing out that as a Usenet group, all that it enables is discussions and <a href=\"http:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/anti-piracy-outfit-wants-ban-on-usenet-talk-091210\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torrentfreak+(Torrentfreak)&#038;utm_content=Google+Reader\" >doesn&#8217;t see how discussions &#8212; even if about file sharing &#8212; should be infringing themselves<\/a>.  In response, BREIN still insists that a Usenet provider can, in fact, be a criminal organization, and asked the court to fine FTD $70,000 per day if it doesn&#8217;t get people to stop talking about file sharing.  But, no, copyright doesn&#8217;t conflict with free speech at all&#8230; right?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091210\/1242497293.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091210\/1242497293.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20091210\/1242497293&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=9ab0c23cc2da8eedfc59fdd1fcd7b6f9&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=9ab0c23cc2da8eedfc59fdd1fcd7b6f9&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=booJ3vSa_rk:IuyMVTB2uws:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=booJ3vSa_rk:IuyMVTB2uws:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=booJ3vSa_rk:IuyMVTB2uws:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/booJ3vSa_rk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, we noted that the Dutch Usenet community FTD was suing BREIN, the local &#8220;anti-piracy&#8221; group, for suggesting that FTD was a criminal operation. As the case moves forward, FTD is pointing out that as a Usenet group, all that it enables is discussions and doesn&#8217;t see how discussions &#8212; even if about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}