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Originally Posted by ahi
Repeating this ad nauseam still won't make it true.
Ignoring the fact that your notion of how the law should be is utterly impractical; you seem to staunchly refuse to recognize that the downloader is receiving a copy in practical terms, not making a copy.
You need to get down to a technical level well below the threshold of concern of judges and the law in order to be able to say, "They're both making a copy."
- Ahi
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And you repeating your opinion ad nauseum still wont make that true.
"In practical terms" doesn't enter into any legal debate that I am aware of. The law deals with the technicalities. That is why Jamie Packer reportedly pays less personal income tax than I do because technically he personally doesn't earn as much money as I do. There isn't a damn thing the tax department can do about it even though "in practical terms" the amount of money he has is far in excess of what I have.
So "in practical terms" or not, if I download something to my computer I am, whether you like to admit it or not, in essence asking my computer to make a copy of that file onto my computer. I am not taking the original file from it's current storage place and putting that original file onto my computer. The original file is still in its original storage place for anyone to access. The uploader may be offering the file for copying but it is my personal actions that cause the copy to be made so it is I who am copying it.
You yourself have stated previously that this is what happens every time someone downloads an internet page to their computer.
Cheers,
PKFFW