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Originally Posted by RXP
1) Wrong jurisdiction.
2) It doesn't completely dismiss anything. There is no legal argument made on the page. It just says "downloading is illegal" There is no reference to jurisprudence from case law or statute. Not saying there is no argument to be made for the case in the US. But about.com isn't where you'll find it.
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This is a load of huff too. If I pay a dodgy kid down the street to download music, it's not legal. He doesn't own the copyright.
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Copyright, Designs and patents act 1998 C 48
26.—(1) Where copyright in a work is infringed by a public performance of the work, or by the playing or showing of the work in public, by means of apparatus for—
(a) playing sound recordings,
(b) showing films, or
(c) receiving visual images or sounds conveyed by electronic means,
the following persons are also liable for the infringement.
and @ BillC:
No i am not some puritan, i never professed to be either...
But MY service is affected by people downloading illicit amounts of 'files' You yourself have been complaining about slow downloads, yet remarkably you are one of the large contributors to the problem... You say that you download only in the wee hours and not during primetime - good for you; My simple point was that people eat stupid amounts of GB bandwidth and its just not cricket !
