Peter Sunde: 'I went to jail for my cause. What did you do?'

Re:Peter Sunde: 'I went to jail for my cause. What did you do?' by terrence_giggy on Thursday December 11, 2014 @09:52AM (#8734994)

Context matters. I can yell FIRE in my own home, but I can't go into a crowded theatre and yell it. The hash as you post it here is meaningless. But elsewhere it could be the key to another's property.

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Re:Peter Sunde: 'I went to jail for my cause. What did you do?' by the8472 on Thursday December 11, 2014 @10:27AM (#8735220)

Personally I think you should be free to yell "FIRE" in a theater too. If that started a panic and someone came to harm due to it then you might be held partially responsible to that harm, but so should those people who mindlessly trample on others without assessing the situation.

But if nothing happened then there should be no reason to make your exclamation illegal.

Of course you could still be thrown out of the theater for disrupting the performance, providing further disincentive for doing something like that, but that's separate from the legality of your speech.

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Re:Peter Sunde: 'I went to jail for my cause. What did you do?' by ultramancool on Thursday December 11, 2014 @02:09PM (#8736507)

> The hash as you post it here is meaningless. But elsewhere it could be the key to another's property.

Not really, anyone who knows the basic structure of a magnet link can go...

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:529C39CC24553DFE030119BD35E19884F34A65E0

And it's perfectly useful. Paste it into any BT client, wind up with a copy of... Windows 7 it looks like. Practically the same as finding the link on TPB.

So, is this another's property or not? Did I just make it by appending a short string to turn it into a URL?

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Re:Peter Sunde: 'I went to jail for my cause. What did you do?' by 0x5f3759df-i on Thursday December 11, 2014 @11:47AM (#8735704)

So piracy is fine if done in my own home?

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