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There is no law prohibiting 'watching infringing material'. One may think downloading is immoral or should be illegal, I am simply stating there is no law again
by deepnet 10y ago
There is no law prohibiting 'watching infringing material'. One may think downloading is immoral or should be illegal, I am simply stating there is no law against it.
Thus you can and do obtain it legally, so long as you don't publish or share the work.
The original uploader or unlicensed streaming site or seller of unlicensed DVD copies is commiting copyright infringement - the downloader or viewer is not.
Drug users are punished with posession, not as smugglers or distributors. Equivalenty downloaders are not infringing copyright.
- softawre 10y ago> Drug users are punished with posession That's a counter-example. Drug punishments aren't related to this at all, but we do charge people for possession AND we charge people for distribution.
- deepnet 10y agoYou would be right if there was a law 'watching infringing material', equivalent to 'receiving stolen goods' - but there is no such law. I have received a lot of emotive disagreement and conflation of terms but where is the statute or precedent that says downloading is illegal ? There is none. Sadly or happily depending on ones position. Yet I don't understand all this disagreement with the facts. Please if you believe I am wrong it would be quite easy to substantiate the argument by a citation of statute or precedent. I have looked into this matter quite extensively and there is no such legal prohibition.