Eeyore wrote:
Surely the issue is more to do with the purpose to which any download is put.
That simply isn't true; read the copyright notices that appear onscreen as you start a DVD. "Thou shalt not broadcast this anyplace, ever". For years they even specifically said "not in schools or oil rigs" too.
Or, look at how much pub landlords have to pay to get SKY in their respective watering holes - because they are "re-broadcasting" to the great unwashed.
The internet and content available from it, is no different. BBC T&C, item 3 covers it to the hilt.
The irony is that most copyright holders (in my experience) don't care if you infringe (whilst simultaneously demanding copyright guardianship at every opportunity) until you invent something that is either vaguely useful, or commercially applicable.
Course, in my particular area of development, everything needs to be cleared by "Legal" usually so its sorted. Albeit everything takes 50% longer than it should.
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