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Originally Posted by calvin-c
Copyright laws differ, of course, so you may be right in some jurisdictions-plus IANAL so I'm not totally certain about even the US copyright laws, but I believe the violation is in making an unauthorized copy of the copyrighted work-and it's the downloader who does that. (So does the uploader, of course, except in this case.)
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Interesting point.
If one downloads a file that is under copyright and they do not have authorisation to make copies of that work they are in effect making an "unauthorised copy" of that file on their computer.
I don't pretend to know the technicalities of the law exactly though and it was my understanding(as I've previously stated!) that it is the uploaders responsibility to ensure they have they relevant authoristion for making copies.
Cheers,
PKFFW