Thread: NTL amongst supporters of Illegal P2P?
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Old 15-11-2004, 15:56   #40
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Re: NTL amongst supporters of Illegal P2P?
The downloading of MP3s via P2P is just as illegal as a mate giving you a copy of a CD he/she has bought, for the simple reason that if you couldn't download it or get a copy from a friend you would have to pay a music retailer to obtain it.

The difficulty arises when music companies no longer produce a particular CD so that it is not commercially available. In those circumstances all the companies could claim is breach of copyright to which anyone accused can argue that they were quite prepared to pay but the CD was not commercially available.

This defence does not apply to people who week in week out download the latest songs, which could be purchased because they are commercially available either on the internet or in local high street stores.
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