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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
Shaggy,
I think it is probably a matter of enforcement. If 90% of book downloaders only downloaded books that they already owned, it would be very difficult to sift through all the downloaders and determine who was legitimately downloading said books and who was doing it illegally.
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How is that my problem? You don't make something illegal just because it's easier to catch the people that really are breaking the law.
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Another argument might be that since the person who uploads the copyrighted work is doing so without permission and therefore illegally, that by downloading said work, you are participating in the original crime of uploading the work.
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I don't think that's how the law works. Whether or not downloading is illegal is a separate offense from the copyright infringement of distribution (uploading).