Recoveryone;696381 Wrote: > The rule of law normally comes into play when you offer the music for > sale or use it in a public forum I.E. Youtube and other open forum > sites. No one to my knowledge has been track down by the feds or > industry for just downloading or having large amount of ripped music, > most of the ones that you heard about were also sharing the files on > peer to peer (Napster, Limewire...) systems.
Absolutely correct (at least in USA). While the downloading of copyrighted material without permission or payment is technically illegal it is only for the sharing and uploading of copyrighted material that people are being "tracked down". It is more a matter of limited law enforcement resources (or more correctly the lack of unlimited law enforcement resources) than one of right and wrong that is causing the present situation. -- ralphpnj Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels -> Snatch -> The Transporter -> Transporter 2 (oops) -> Touch 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80369 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
