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Originally Posted by shalym
Yes...the operative phrase being "and for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain" Someone who uploads an ebook to a torrent does not fit this description. A person running a website trying to sell pirated book will definitely be breaking this law, and someone running a free download site that is supported by ads may be as well. Someone who buys a book from Amazon and uploads it definitely is not, no matter how many books they upload, as long as they aren't getting any "commercial advantage or private financial gain".
Shari
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Example if I give you a copy of anything, it is unlikely the courts would bother. If I sold you a copy of anything, then yes we could both get in trouble, if you knew it was a copy. If you thought you were getting an original than only I could get in trouble.
*Note in this sense copy means not the original.
That said: I only know of one person that went to court for illegally downloading music. He lost financially but he wasn't arrested and he has no record because it was civil court.
*I think there was more to it than he was just downloading.