Quentin Tarantino And Prince Attack Internet Linking

[Rockheart]

So one of Tarantino's latest scripts was posted on the internet.
He says he only gave it to 6 people, so he should have some clue who is responsible?

Tarantino is now suing Gawker, which didn't actually host the script, but simply pointed to it via a couple simple web links, just as anyone else on the Internet could easily do with a simple href tag.

http://defamer.gawker.com/here-are-plot-details-from-quentin-tarantinos-leaked-1507675261

Prince reportedly filed a suit in the Northern District of California against 22 people who found links to various concerts and posted them on Facebook and blogs for $1 million each. I wonder if this strategy is next for Tarantino?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2547039/Prince-suing-22-Facebook-users-1million-bootlegging-claims.html

Sites link to stuff shouldn't really get in trouble.
If you remove it from the source, the links are no good anymore.

Say someone posts a link on tgirlforums to a copyrighted movie on a tube site.
Should tgirlforums be charged for stealing this movie?
I think not.

[Guest]

Yea it's been years that anyone can find a video of Prince performing on youtube.
He would rather we go see his shows and BUY his music - and he is right.
But come on...is he starving for money that badly?
Rich litte wimp.

Babe,
xoxo

[rider014]

The beginning of the end?

Very interesting, Prince and his ego are trying to essentially control the internet, Facebook in particular. If these claims are upheld in any way, could this be the the first of many blows to social media? Seems there was a thread started not long ago predicting the virtual end of Facebook?
Tarentino? Well that was just plain stupid to release a script to anyone!!

[Rockheart]

From my understanding, it's a common practice for industry insiders to see a script. Scripts are handed out to actors or agents constantly. The problem is that one of the six people who received it posted a copy online for the whole world to see.

Well you have to shop it around, of course.
It seems he was blaming the internet, rather than trying to blame one of the six people.
When it was posted online the internet just did what the internet does.

As he said from now on, only paper copies.
The only other factor is anytime you send out and electronic copy it could fall into the wrong hands.
Stored in a Google account or something like that, you just never know who might see it.

[cameeindos]

He's an overrated director IMO. Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs were pathological (anal rape? lol.. whatever, dude..) but Jackie Brown was his best film IMO. But then he should realise that ANYTHING on the Web is public domain, for anybody to view, peruse or send. They simply can't claim it as their own property. It would be illegal if he uploaded it to a server, and somebody hacked into it. but on the Web as a site and/or page, no he has no case.

[Shyla Wild]

If you post a link to copyrighted material, does not matter if it is streaming, bootlegs or whatever, and someone uses your link to access this illegal material, you can be charged with "Accessory to the Crime".

You are helping people commit a crime. Plain and Simple.

463. Except where otherwise expressly provided by law, the following provisions apply in respect of persons who attempt to commit or are accessories after the fact to the commission of offences:

• (a) every one who attempts to commit or is an accessory after the fact to the commission of an indictable offence for which, on conviction, an accused is liable to be sentenced to imprisonment for life is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years;
• (b) every one who attempts to commit or is an accessory after the fact to the commission of an indictable offence for which, on conviction, an accused is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years or less is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term that is one-half of the longest term to which a person who is guilty of that offence is liable;
• (c) every one who attempts to commit or is an accessory after the fact to the commission of an offence punishable on summary conviction is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction; and
• (d) every one who attempts to commit or is an accessory after the fact to the commission of an offence for which the offender may be prosecuted by indictment or for which he is punishable on summary conviction
• (i) is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding a term that is one-half of the longest term to which a person who is guilty of that offence is liable, or
• (ii) is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.