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Originally Posted by Catlady
I find your suggestion that making a copy for Aunt Mary to read and uploading a copy to a file-sharing site can be equated to be utterly ludicrous.
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I honestly cannot see how they are different.
One is giving someone an unauthorized copy, the other is giving someone an unauthorized copy. I see no meaningful difference in knowing the someone's name, or in the expected number of someones, other than when it comes time to calculate damages. Unless you think the likelihood of getting in trouble makes a difference? I don't.
What if you uploaded to the file sharing site and only Aunt Mary ever happened to download a copy? Now you did nothing wrong?
With Harry's cases I can see the difference clearly, starting with the fact that one is illegal and one is arguable at best, based on differing court opinions and ambiguous and untested language in the DMCA, and continuing on to one is clearly not a case of fair use, and the other seems to be, and finally getting down to the more arguably ambiguous moral concerns, which I personally see the same way Harry does.