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Sat Mar 24 2007, 08:54AM
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If you are affiliated with any government, anti-piracy group or any other related group, or were formally a worker of one you CANNOT enter this web site, cannot access any of its files and you cannot view any of the HTML files. If you enter this site you are not agreeing to these terms and you are violating code 431.322.12 of the Internet Privacy Act signed by Bill Clinton in 1995 and that means that you CANNOT threaten our ISP(s) or any person(s) or company storing these files, and cannot prosecute any person(s) affiliated with this page which includes family, friends or individuals who run or enter this web site.


The passage quoted above, or variants thereof, can be found on thousands of web sites (particularly those that traffic in pirated software, music, and films), placed there in the misguided belief that it actually provides web site operators protection against being prosecuted for engaging in illegal, Internet-related activities. As a legal strategem, it's just as flawed as the widely-believed notion that prostitutes and drug dealers can foil the efforts of undercover cops simply by asking them flat out "Are you a cop?" under the mistaken assumption that law enforcement officers cannot lie about their status (and if they do, the bust will be thrown out of court as a case of "entrapment").

As to the specifics of this dubious disclaimer, President Clinton signed no "Internet Privacy Act" in 1995, and existing federal privacy protections applicable to the world of cyberspace generally govern the collection and dissemination of personal information (such as medical records) via the Internet. Federal privacy laws don't serve to provide those who break laws in the on-line world with protection from prosecution should their illegal cyber-activities be uncovered by law enforcement officials visiting their web sites.

When it comes to acts that a significant portion of the public doesn't feel should be criminal (such as prostitution or distributing copyright-protected material via the Internet), many of those who engage in such acts cling to the belief that the use of some simple legal talisman -- knowing enough to ask the right question or post a pertinent disclaimer -- will immunize them from prosecutorial harm, but the law just doesn't work that way. Although we do have some well-established legal protections against the search and seizure of property and the disclosure of certain types of information (e.g., communications between priest and penitents, doctors and patients, lawyers and clients, husbands and wives) in legal proceedings, there are no special laws to prevent law enforcement officials from gathering information about illegal activities through the course of normal investigative efforts just because those efforts take place on-line, nor are the results of those efforts nullified if investigators conceal or fail to reveal their status as law enforcement officials.

The surest way of avoiding punishment for breaking the law remains . . . don't break the law.

Although we at Animedownloadz don't really care about that it is still funny to see how many websites think that protects them.

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Mon Mar 26 2007, 01:20AM
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that is funny. But we don't break the law here at Animedownloadz, we would never even dream of it. But it is funny. I have been on a few of those sites. I really don't get it because you can always just lie about your age. No one is going to know.



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Mon Mar 26 2007, 01:34AM
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It isn't about age it is about them providing illegal material.

And we kinda do break copywrite laws with our anime downloads it is just that it isn't really worth Anime companies time to prosucute us unless we are makeing a profit off it which we are not.

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Mon Mar 26 2007, 02:04AM
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yeah, I know beause you guys wounldnt be talking about how broke everyone in the site is. ANd ofcoarse the anime companies don't check, you know how much time that would waste.



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Mon Mar 26 2007, 05:27AM
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Actually Anime Companies do check but they only take legal action if a anime website is profiting off of there work.

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Just wondering if they could go after the person uploading to the site instead

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I wonder too, who would be the one that gets in to trouble.



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Tue Apr 03 2007, 10:12AM

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Didn't somebody just sue Google for videos on YouTube. I hope that doesn't start them going after everything. The internet is the only place to get alot of video's or shows from around the world.
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They don't go after anybody unless they profit off of their work.

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Isn't it technically still illegal if said anime was on sale for a dvd or something, since we are pretty much giving it away for free. We'd be stealing their profits for each person we have wouldn't we?

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