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Originally Posted by tompe
Could you please define what "illegal version" means and give pointers to the law that treats this? I am interested in reading these laws but find it hard to find exactly what people are referring to.
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This is the US Copyright Office website. You can learn about Fair Use and other copyright laws there. But of course you are not a US citizen, so your laws may be different.
http://www.copyright.gov/
I'll tell you this: Fair Use never allows the use of an entire work, and it never allows use for entertainment purposes. So all claims of Fair Use on all these sites with illegal music, etc, is absolute nonsense.
As far as creating a copy of something you own, for your own use, WITHOUT DISTRIBUTING, I
think that's legal in the US, unless the copyright holder has applied different terms of use. Terms of Use are legally binding. So, for example, if an author specifically states that you are not to make digital copies, then it'd be illegal for you to do so.
I am of course talking about United States laws. I live in the US, I have never researched laws of other countries, I have no reason to.