On Tuesday 24 May 2005 20:47, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > This is a blatant lie. If it's protected by copyright, then copying it is > illegal unless you already own a copy. And even then it's still illegal in most places (incl. Israel, apparently?).
> No it's not. As I said before in every country that has copyright laws, > doing so is stealing. No it's not. It's copyright infringement. That's not stealing, and it isn't murder, banditry or outlaw warfare either, recording industry claims notwithstanding. Please stop talking about theft > You can't hide behind the someone else put it > out there, or someone else is sharing it argument. They are only valid if > the OWNER of the copyright put it out there or is sharing it. Inaccurate. In some European countries, when a copyrighted file is copied between two computers, only the uploading party is violating copyright law, so it's legal to download in that case. -- Dan Armak Gentoo Linux developer (KDE) Public GPG key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key Fingerprint: DD70 DBF9 E3D4 6CB9 2FDD 0069 508D 9143 8D5F 8951
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