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09-03-2010, 11:06 AM | #18 |
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Depends on how you parse it. People are being sued for file-sharing Hurt Locker as I type. The articles I've read don't distinguish between just downloading something and sharing it. But, if your preference is not being sued, I wouldn't download copyrighted stuff.
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An interesting question: Let's say you live in the US (a life+70 country) and go to visit a life+50 country. On the way home, you buy a life+60 book (legal in the country you're buying it in, but not in the US) in the airport bookstore to have something to read while you wait. You (and your book) get on the plane to come home. In the US airport ... what do you do with your book? The Internet makes all sorts of things complicated. But in any event, nobody cares if Joe Schmoe downloads an in-copyright book or two so long as he doesn't pass them around; nobody will, in fact, know about said books. Even if Joe picks up the latest and greatest, rather than something decades old and forgotten about by everyone, including the decades-later successors in interest to its publisher, nobody is going to know unless they raid the servers and sloooowly sort out what person, from what country, and when, downloaded which book. The letters in question went out to people who were handing out large numbers of recent songs, not people who deleted a handful of ancient books, and given how well the RIAA's efforts weren't received, that's unlikely to change. I'm sure, somewhere in my collection of books legal in my country, I've gotten one or two that are actually only legal somewhere else. No little letters, and I don't expect any. Sorry to say, but the publishing industry doesn't think you're important at all. |
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09-03-2010, 01:02 PM | #21 |
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Just delete the book if it makes you uncomfortable to have it. It is extremely doubtful that your internet provider or anybody else knows or cares that you downloaded a couple hundred kilobytes of copyrighted text.
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Every lawsuit I've ever seen with regards to this stuff is always because somebody was sharing, not downloading. |
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That's true, of course. But, I haven't yet found an explanation of exactly what the people are being sued for, if it's sharing or just downloading.
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I believe the original question was about downloading material from here, which means file-sharing/uploading wasn't involved.
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GaylaM it's understandable that you downloaded something from a server located in another country where copyright laws might be different. I highly doubt that you'll lose your internet connection or anything will happen to you. If you don't feel comfortable having it on our computer you can safely delete it. Mainly the copyright laws that differ from country to country so even if it's assumed that it is still protected here in the U.S. and out of print it's not a serious problem unless you're distributing it through the internet to thousands of other people. I think many people hear horror stories about big brother watching everything we do or the stories about people being sued for illegally downloading stuff and going to jail. I seriously doubt this applies to your situation. If it's public domain in Canada and not in the U.S. I'm pretty sure it's not in print and you're aren't denying a publisher their due royalties.
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09-03-2010, 01:16 PM | #28 |
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Almost everything you download from the internet is copyrighted. If that were illegal, you'd potentially be breaking the law just about every time you clicked on a link.
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