I believe it depends on the country. I think in Switzerland (and perhaps Canada for music?) downloading copyrighted material was legal, but uploading was illega

I believe it depends on the country. I think in Switzerland (and perhaps Canada for music?) downloading copyrighted material was legal, but uploading was illegal. But I am pretty sure that is not the case for the US, and downloading is still copyright infringement. Perhaps food for thought here http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/09/p2p-downloading-is-it-legal/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/09/p2p-downloading-i...