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Originally Posted by zerospinboson
I love fallacies. Really. Which is why it pains me to see you type "illegal". downloading copyrighted works (games/software excluded) is legal in a fair number of countries around the world, including most or all of the EU.
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That is itself a "fallacy". It is most certainly NOT legal in many EU countries - eg the UK.
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This is because current law compares it to making copies in libraries. You are allowed to photocopy books, after all.
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You are not allowed to copy the whole of a book in most countries. "Fair use" permits you to copy a portion of one (one chapter, in the UK) for certain purposes (eg study), but you are restricted in what you can do with it; you're not allowed to re-sell it, for example.
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Apart from scale and ease, downloading is no different. [uploading being another matter]
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I'm glad that you believe that uploading is "another matter", but how can it be acceptable to download material that has been illegally uploaded?