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Originally Posted by darryl
Thanks. That is also the situation in Australia and in most of the common law world as I understand it. Even in the US downloading for ones own use and not sharing would not seem to be an offence, though their ridiculous statutory damages regime is far worse than the likely punishment if it was.
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The last time the RIAA tried a public anti-piracy campaign, they sued a number of people who were downloading music. There was so much backlash over the case of suing a grandmother over music her granddaughter had downloaded, they never tried it again.