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Originally Posted by Womble
My point exactly, you can't exceed the limit legally, well you can but you have to go out of your way to do so. NTL could always scrap the cap and use packet sniffers!!!!!!!!!!!
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I think you could quite easiliy go over the limits legally. This will become even easier as more and more companies roll out broadband content products, like ntl's own BB+ If I was watching music videos on BB+ all weekend I would quite quickly fly over the limits I think.
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Originally Posted by Acathla
It is illegal to download and upload copyrighted material.
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Are you sure? I seem to think that there was some sort of prescident on this a long time ago, before the internet existed. The outcome was that you cannot make available copyrighted material to others (like selling or handing out photocopies of a book) but it is not illegal to aquire such product.
It may well be that the rules changed in the new Copyright Bill recently, and certainly if you install some software then generally you have to agree to terms and conditions which would leave you open to being sued if you violated them (like installing software you had got from someone else).
But in the case of music, I believe the copyright exists in the use and distribution only, not in the possesion.