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Originally Posted by andygrif
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.
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I'm near 100% sure that its illegal.
Its just Music Publishers will generally go after distributers as they are usually the big players. Same as drugs, stop the dealers and youll stop the sales.