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Originally Posted by BookCat
darryl: Interesting, so you are saying that copyright infringement is not a crime, but can be fought in civil courts. I wonder if this is the case in the UK, where I have the distinct impression that it's a criminal offense, but I may be wrong.
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I think there has been variance between civil only and both civil and criminal.
Some violations are currently criminal in the UK.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyri...minal_offences
And in the USA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimin..._copyright_law