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WHAT EXACTLY IS ILLEGAL TO DOWNLOAD AND WHAT ISN'T?
WHAT ARE THESE BIG MUSIC BUCKAROOS LOOKING FOR.
HOW OLD DOES A SONG HAVE TO BE BEFORE IT CAN BE SAFELY DOWNLOADED BEFORE THE MONEY HUNGRY MUSIC INDUSTRY DECIDES TO COME AFTER YOU?
DOES ANYONE KNOW THE FACTS?
 
Where do you live? If you are in Europe, I woudn't worry too mutch about being caught in flagrance of sharing within gnutella. otherwise the courts would have been filled with 50% of under 30ies!!!
 
Hi CARLO!

In Germany they changed the law, its now possible that they sue you... the provider have to give the IPs - so its possible that they catch you... but I think compared with the USA the risk is low.

Morgwen
 
Re the legality of downloading copyright material, it looks like it's OK to download but not upload in Canada. Apparently several years ago we put a tax on CD's so that downloads were 'paid for' just like radio broadcasts.

http://techcentralstation.com/081803C.html

more details here

http://grep.law.harvard.edu/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/1655233&mode=thread

Needless to say, this law is untested as far as I know, and could well change, just as it has in Europe and elsewhere.
 
HI MORGWEN!
Missed me, eh?

I know that it is possible for the officers, but here in Italy we know quite well that there's an ocean between certain laws and their application. And in a democracy, a violation of a law which involves such a large amount of population risks to influence the "Law" itself. It is irrealistic to bring in tribunal even a little amount of the p2p users. The day i'll get charged, you'll hear me laughing from Germany as i present myself to the court.
 
Canada has collected about 60 million Canadian dollars in our usual compromise to try to be fair to downloaders and industry alike. Of course, this means lots of complaints from vested interests, but meanwhile users are happily going about our affairs mostly unaware that we are already paying for our "free" music downloads.

"As far as computer hard drives are concerned, we say that for the time being, it is still legal," said Claude Majeau, secretary general of the Copyright Board
http://news.com.com/2100-1025-5121479.html

Here's an excerpt from the FACT SHEET after the Copyright Board's latest ruling
 
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