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Originally Posted by haertig
What I did say however, is that if someone infringes on this copyright that enforcement is not "automatic". The police will not come after you on their own volition, even if they have strong suspicions that you are violating a copyright (as I said previously, there may be exceptions to this in extreme cases).
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Yes, it's a civil offence. Similar the police won't come after you if you breach the terms of a contract or trespass on someone's land - all are civil offences. But in all these examples you are nonetheless breaking the law.