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Originally Posted by tompe
Is this some kind of forum policy? Do you mean that is is illegal to encourage people to break the law so there is a forum policy against it. Laws can be bad and in some cases it is good to encourage people to break them.
Also, event if the EU directive is implemented there is in many countried exceptions for personal use. So you cannot assume things just from the EU directive.
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I think this is more along the lines of "don't encourage someone to do something which will get them thrown in jail"... While I agree that some laws are bad - and should be removed - I would hate to think that my encouragement caused someone to break such a law, get thrown in jail and cause emotional and financial harm to his/her family.
So no, it isn't right to use MobileRead as a bully-pulpit to push for people to break the law.
And you have to also consider that by using MR as a channel for encouraging lawless behavior, you could be compliciting the moderators. Not a good thing.
Of course, nothing prevents you from sending someone who's interested a PM and then using your own email accounts to exchange ideas.
Derek