On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 11:10:07 -0400
"Networks East" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:

> FILE SHARING IS ILLEGAL

No, it's not. Sharing of copyrighted material is a violation of the
copyright holders' rights, it is not theft, at least not in most
civilised countries. 

Photocopying a book is not the same as removing the physical book from
the store, it's a simple legal fact. Civil court vs. criminal court.

Only in the US, and perhaps soon in EU, this could become equivalent,
but copyright law was never intended to come under the same heading as
theft.

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