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What about in the US? Can one be tracked/prosecuted simply for downloading?
by onnonotme01 16y ago
What about in the US? Can one be tracked/prosecuted simply for downloading?
- HerberthAmaral 16y agoWithout a doubt. Remember the Anonymous guys arrested by doing DDoS: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/01/two-real-guns-pointed-at-me-how-the-fbi-raided-anonymous.ars http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/01/two-real-gun...
- nailer 16y agoYes, it happens with other copywritten materials frequently.
- cookiecaper 16y agoTheoretically yes but usually they target distributors in preference to users. It's easier to get a verdict or judgment against the distributor because it avoids the question of "what is a copy" and how that applies to the digital space and also because people are less sympathetic to distributors. The thing with P2P applications is that everyone is also automatically a distributor.