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Originally Posted by tompe
What? You said "it's completely unenforceable, and everyone does it" and that was an argument for why a thing should not be illegal. The same holds for uploading and downloading copyrighted material so I think you are inconsistent.
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No. My argument for making format shifting legal is that it's clearly ridiculous to say to someone that, if they've legitimately bought a CD, they are committing a crime if they transfer the contents of that CD to an MP3 player. That's common sense.
It is equally obvious that if you upload those MP3 files to the Internet for anyone to download then you ARE committing a crime and should be prosecuted for it.
At present UK law makes the two actions essentially the same as far as their "illegality" goes. I think that's stupid, personally. Don't you?
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I do not know what "illegal material" means here. If I just saw it used without a specific context it would be something like child pornography that is illegal to possess in a lot of countries. I do not understand how you can call a copy of a film for illegal material.
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"Illegal material" in the context in which I was using it means redistribution of material that you do not have permission from the copyright holder to redistribute.