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Originally Posted by dhbailey
But nothing I've read or heard about says that the downloading of illegally uploaded copyrighted material is legal, and I'm surprised that any country which participated in the Uruguay rounf of GATT would have laws which make it legal.
I'm certainly not trying to say you're wrong -- I'm just surprised. I know China has massive piracy that way, but I had thought that European countries had worked to minimize such piracy.
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It's not a case of having laws that make it legal, as much as a current
absence of laws which makes it
illegal - in many countries, copyright law hasn't "caught up" with the idea of electronic distribution. Many EU countries (especially those Eastern European countries which have only recently joined the EU) haven't yet implemented the EU Copyright Directive in national law.