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Seriously? Do they do the same for places playing music? I thought the copyright holders pursued these offences, I just can't imagine a cop doing a patrol poppi
by monkeynotes 3y ago
Seriously? Do they do the same for places playing music? I thought the copyright holders pursued these offences, I just can't imagine a cop doing a patrol popping into pubs and bars and checking for streaming.
- gosub100 3y agoIn the US it happens all the time that DirecTV hires PI's to check if bars are broadcasting sports (or music) without a license.
- monkeynotes 3y agoSo not cops then. That's exactly what I was saying, the copyright owners usually chase this stuff, not the police. I just can't imagine uniform ever doing this sort of thing.
- gosub100 3y agoIf you're curious, you should look up the story (I saw on HN years ago) about an apple R&D engineer leaving a next-gen iPhone prototype at a bar. Some guy found it and took it home and Apple got almost a SWAT team level response from the police to get it back. Also, the programmer who quit Goldman Sachs and they got the FBI to arrest and hold him for (IIRC) a whole year before he cleared his name. Allegedly he copied the entire trading system software to his personal drive, (and he did start his own HFT company) but his side was that people copied company code outside the network all the time and this was routine, and none of GS' code was found on his new company's server.
- wait_a_minute 3y agoBig difference between a company verifying its own product distribution vs law enforcement being tasked with that. Not to mention that the concept of being fined or jailed for this is absolutely ridiculous.