"I made an assertion and now it's my "job to support it"?! How is that for an assertion. " You made a bare assertion about the law. If you are going to simpl

"I made an assertion and now it's my "job to support it"?! How is that for an assertion. " You made a bare assertion about the law. If you are going to simply assert things as true, yes, you get to support them. As a lawyer, you should know you can't just walk into court and say "bob is not guilty" (or the reverse, depending on where you live). You actually have to support this thesis. I pointed out your assertion was quite incorrect in several countries, and specifically asked you for some caselaw to the contrary, in the hopes of getting some that may be directly applicable. Rather than support your assertion, you just pointed out these were not US rulings, which was kind of besides the point. " Stating that everybody is not entitled to get a free copy of copyrighted material is hardly an assertion in the first place " ???? There are a very large number of situations where a a lot of people are entitled to free copies and use of copyrighted material, in both the US, and Europe, so yes, it is quite an assertion. It's also the case that there are a lot of situations where such material would become uncopyrightable, again, in the US, and Europe. So it's not "hardly an assertion in the first place". The rest does not seem to be quite on point, which is the question of whether or not what Carl did is going to be found to be a violation, and not about who should bear the cost. The only thing I see here that answers the question I asked directly is "As for court cases, I don't know of any on this subject." I take it then you don't have any legal support for your assertion? Cases, laws, etc, that would say that what Carl is doing is illegal, rather than policy arguments?