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Originally Posted by HarryT
Surely copyright infringement occurs when you copy it - that's the meaning of the word. Do you not think that it would be copyright infringement to, say, copy it from your hard disk onto a reading device? I believe that it probably would be.
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I'm not sure how it is in the UK, but in the US, it happens with the redistribution. Fair use allows for personal copying. You just cannot keep a copy if you sell the original, and you cannot give anyone a copy.
And to be totally clear, the people who get in trouble for pirating, they're snagged for the uploading, and not the downloading. Confusion comes in, because most P2P clients start uploading automatically as soon as possible, and with Bit Torrent, you don't even have to have it downloaded completely before it is uploading parts to others.