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Originally Posted by calvin-c
I believe the violation is in making an unauthorized copy of the copyrighted work-and it's the downloader who does that.
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You are correct that the violation is in making/distributing an unauthorized copy, but the downloader does not do that.
The one thing that some people have tried to argue is that downloaders are committing contributory copyright infringement (IE an indirect infringement). However, that has never been tried successfully in court as far as I know, and the law was not written with the intent of being applied to somebody downloading material.