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Originally Posted by tompe
Of course in practice you always upload. But here I thought the interesting question was if possession of material that you did not explicitly had the right to was illegal to possess. And the argument was that since it was illegal to download it was illegal to possess it.
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Well, you
can download and not upload in Bit Torrent, but you'll be very disappointed in your download speeds...
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Poeple do not seem to be in agreement on what holds. Is everybody in agreement on that if it was not illegal to download then it can not be illegal to have it? Or to show that its is illegal to have it you must show that it was obtained in an illegal way?
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If you are in possession of stolen property, it is stolen property. From the legal perspective, it may matter whether you
knew it was stolen when you got it, if someone presses charges against you for having it.
In the case of the stuff that the RIAA cares about, it's hard to claim innocence when you use Bit Torrent to get the files. They are available through Bit Torrent in the first place because someone ripped them from a CD or DVD and made them available. Folks with enough savvy to use a bit torrent client, find a tracker, and locate the stuff they are interested in will have a real hard time claiming they didn't know it was illegal. There's certainly been enough publicity about it.
But frankly, I think such discussions are wandering rather far afield from the original topic, and simply allowing a few folks to ride their favorite hobby horses again.
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Dennis