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Originally Posted by PKFFW
So to absolve them of all "wrong-doing"(for want of a better term) when it comes to copyright infringement(if such a thing is illegal where they are) because "it shouldn't be up to those that download to verify if something is under copyright, that is the sole responsibility of the uploader" is a bit of a furphy if you ask me.
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I never claimed that all p2p users should be absolved of "wrong-doing". I said that downloading is not infringement. If someone on p2p is also uploading, then yes, they are committing infringement. The question was "why do people think downloading is illegal", not "why do people think unauthorized sharing on p2p is illegal".
This issue is a lot bigger than p2p. There are many ways to download on the internet that don't have any association with uploading or sharing. It's the same principle when people bought Orwell eBooks from Amazon a while ago. They weren't committing infringement either, even though Amazon was.
Receiving copyrighted material does not require authorization. Distributing copyrighted material does. The responsibility is on the distributor, it has nothing to do with what technology is involved.