Can My Son Get in Trouble?

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My son told me that he downloaded over 500 games off the internet.I want to know can he get in trouble for that? He said he paid for some of them but not all.
 
Pepsi said:
My son told me that he down loaded over 500 games off the internet.I want to know can he get in trouble for that? He said he paid for some of them but not all.
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haha awesome :cool2: well chance is nah he's not gona get in trouble unless he downloaded it off from a trap set up by company.
 
Pepsi said:
Oh, o.k. thanks.That is good to know.
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all you can tell him is to be safe and be smart to judge the source. Some source is a trap.... some is real... some is fake (virus). If he's downloading TOO MUCH (for ie.. over 10gb in a week), you MAY receive a warning letter from your internet service provider.
 
Piracy is illegal in the USA. If they caught your son downloading and uploading pirated games, they can file charges against him or you.

If they are freeware games, then that's different.
 
jiro123 said:
all you can tell him is to be safe and be smart to judge the source. Some source is a trap.... some is real... some is fake (virus). If he's downloading TOO MUCH (for ie.. over 10gb in a week), you MAY receive a warning letter from your internet service provider.
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I will tell him,thanks jiro123.
 
Banjo said:
That would be entrapment and should be illegal.
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you'll have to cough up bunch of legal fees to argue that case. I use PeerGuardians for blacklist purpose.
 
Banjo said:
Piracy is illegal in the USA. If they caught your son downloading and uploading pirated games, they can file charges against him or you.

If they are freeware games, then that's different.
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I don't know the web sites he got them from,he don't live with me,he has his own computer.
 
jiro123 said:
you'll have to cough up bunch of legal fees to argue that case. I use PeerGuardians for blacklist purpose.
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The problem with that is if a company set up a website with downloads that are "supposedly illegal", they are in fact encouraging people to participate in illegal activities in order to pursue criminal charges against them.

That is entrapment and I do believe it should be illegal. In fact, it is illegal for the enforcement force in Canada to entrap people. It is a serious crime and is not taken lightly. If I"m not mistaken, it is not illegal in many states across the USA, but it should be. Really.

I remember reading about an anti-piracy group called Media Defender, formed by MPAA, they launched their own website last year. I don't think it's up now, but I wouldn't be surprised to learn that there are several of these websites around. I know they denied that they had any involvement with the website, but should we believe them?

No. They have been known to play dirty and they even have pirated some movies. I recall a documentary called, "This Film Is Not Yet Rated" being pirated by MPAA.

Quite a bunch of hypocrites.
 
Banjo said:
The problem with that is if a company set up a website with downloads that are "supposedly illegal", they are in fact encouraging people to participate in illegal activities in order to pursue criminal charges against them.

That is entrapment and I do believe it should be illegal. In fact, it is illegal for the enforcement force in Canada to entrap people. It is a serious crime and is not taken lightly. If I"m not mistaken, it is not illegal in many states across the USA, but it should be. Really.

I remember reading about an anti-piracy group called Media Defender, formed by MPAA, they launched their own website last year. I don't think it's up now, but I wouldn't be surprised to learn that there are several of these websites around. I know they denied that they had any involvement with the website, but should we believe them?

No. They have been known to play dirty and they even have pirated some movies. I recall a documentary called, "This Film Is Not Yet Rated" being pirated by MPAA.

Quite a bunch of hypocrites.
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well... entrapment is illegal for law enforcements but not for corporations. In fact, they don't need to set up the site. They can easily search for it in kazaa or torrents and then they can see who is sharing the file.
 
jiro123 said:
well... entrapment is illegal for law enforcements but not for corporations. In fact, they don't need to set up the site. They can easily search for it in kazaa or torrents and then they can see who is sharing the file.
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Entrapment is still a sticky topic, it's also very difficult to pursue charges of entrapment. It's sort of illegal but not entirely.
 
Banjo said:
Entrapment is still a sticky topic, it's also very difficult to pursue charges of entrapment. It's sort of illegal but not entirely.
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that's why I mentioned that you're gona have to cough up bunch of legal fees to dispute that case. it's costly and lengthly....
 
lol, your son should be pirate.

Banjo is right about piracy is illegal in USA, you can get caught on random time, in case, you can be lucky.

I had few softwares that's pirated, gotta to be careful.

If piracy is serious issue then software, film and music companies would losing the money and probably not work on future stuff but right now, it's not serious issue.
 
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Pacman said:
lol, your son should be pirate.

Banjo is right about piracy is illegal in USA, you can get caught on random time, in case, you can be lucky.

I had few softwares that's pirated, gotta to be careful.

If piracy is serious issue then software, film and music companies would losing the money and probably not work on future stuff but right now, it's not serious issue.
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Pacman thanks :)
 
It depends on where he downloaded them from, such as gametap.com.
 
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