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11-02-2011, 03:27 PM | #62 |
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This discussion happened before. Wasn't this becoming illegal sharing starting from the point when the file is 100% downloaded?
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11-02-2011, 03:36 PM | #63 | |
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11-02-2011, 03:40 PM | #64 | |
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These arguments are like the old "Chicken and Egg" rationalizations. The uploading and downloading of copyrighted material for mass distribution is illegal unless you own the copyright. IMHO! |
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11-02-2011, 10:20 PM | #66 |
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I tend to use bittorrent and other sources of books as more of a try before you buy system. If I read the first of a series or a new author and enjoy it, then I buy their stuff. As for not having the right to to download that which I own in paper format, I'm not sure about the legality. I know there are a number of books that I've purchased in a bookstore and then downloaded a normally less than legal copy for my ebook reader to have it for convenience. I tend to see music in the same way. If I owned the music on a cassette in my younger days, I don't see the issue with downloading an mp3. I don't feel that I'm doing anything morally wrong. I'm not sure how the law views it.
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11-03-2011, 12:04 AM | #67 | |
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11-03-2011, 12:12 AM | #68 |
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Truthfully, I doubt this is about the money collected from illegal parties. I bet that the cost of suing and collecting largely offsets any money's gained. Especially since many of the parties won't have the ability to pay substantial sums.
I think purpose of these fines is to deter potential future downloaders, not really to collect money from those who have already downloaded. |
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11-03-2011, 09:39 AM | #70 | |
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In fact, at least in the UK, I'm sure that it wouldn't be. |
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More interesting is whether sharing 99% of a compacted file is illegal if it is not even partially usable unless it is 100% intact.
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11-03-2011, 10:35 AM | #72 |
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I was an Erasmus student in Italy a few years ago and it was legal to copy pages from a book as long as it wasn't the whole book. Typically this was done by going to the shop twice.
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It is not legal to repeatedly do so until you have copied the entire book. |
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11-03-2011, 02:23 PM | #75 |
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Nobody's being prosecuted for anything here. This is a civil lawsuit, not a criminal proceeding.
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