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This is why people should not play lawyer: the charges (for every instance I'm aware of, and certainly the popular USCG cases) are for illegal distribution, not
by lutorm 16y ago
This is why people should not play lawyer: the charges (for every instance I'm aware of, and certainly the popular USCG cases) are for illegal distribution, not illegal download.
A-ha. So then downloading is fine, then? That certainly makes more sense to me.
- boredguy8 16y agoNo, it's not fine. It's just what's been the focus in more cases. This article addresses the 'downloading' side of things for two other cases. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/09/p2p-downloading-is-it-legal.ars http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/09/p2p-download...
- lutorm 16y agoSorry, I should have been more precise: The act of downloading itself is not sufficient to prove that you broke the law.