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Originally Posted by HansTWN
If you click on a link you are not downloading anything are you?
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Yes, you are, actually. Clicking on a link IS downloading content, that's how the web works.
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The problem lies with downloading copyrighted files for free from a site that clearly isn't authorized to do so
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That's the problem. "clearly isn't authorized" isn't nearly as cut and dried as you might imagine. Just about everything you receive from the internet (including clicking on links or downloading, they're the same thing really) is copyrighted. Any of them are potentially unauthorized. In the vast majority of cases, you probably don't even know. Also, in the vast majority if cases, you probably have no way of knowing.
Because of the nature of the internet and the web, there are many times that you don't even know where the content is really coming from.