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Originally Posted by Milambar
It must be noted that the law doesn't allow for the transcoding of your media to your mp3 players or tablets either.
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Slightly OT, but wasn't law changed (or at least relaxed) recently with regards to CDs/MP3s so that you can now legally rip them
for personal use?
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Originally Posted by _wtf_
Yet in your reply you mention copyright theft, I'm assuning a typo and correcting it, even though there is no such thing in UK or even US law as 'copyright theft' because that would obviously make it a criminal not civil case.
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Who cares about the specifics?
Whether criminal
law or civil
law, a
law has been
broken.
You can hide behind semantics all you want, _wtf_ but downloading something you do not have the rights to do so is wrong. End of story.
Imagine you were a musician relying on income from your job. But you don't get paid. Instead, people just download your stuff against civil law. How would you feel? Now imagine you're a film company who has spent hundreds of thousands on a big, popular film. You should really be making your money back, but it's pirated so much that it doesn't make as much as it should. Is that good or bad for your business?
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The point I'm trying to make is ordinary people don't understand copyright law and simply regurgitate terms the copyright owners want you to.
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Yet the law is still the law and should not be broken.