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Old 08-12-2005, 04:16 AM   #8
Hack&Lube
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This thread is hilarious. I can't believe people believing downloading movies could possibly be legal.

Music was for a time, in the ambiguous catagory of legal due to the levy placed on audio-recording mediums including devices with harddrive, flash memory, tapes, CDs, DVDs, MDs, and any other variety of optical audio storage. This levy nolonger exists and music is now ambiguously in the illegal catagory also.

This never applied to any other icopywrited materials including movies and the protection against music was fuzzy at best. Why anybody would assume movies were legal to download is hilarious. That's totally crazy!!! Of course Torrent is P2P! And being P2P has nothing to do with the legality of the situation!

The only legal methods of downloading are from the authorized sites that actually own the rights to said works or pay royalties for offering them. *HINT* they cost you money. IE: itunes.

torrents, kazaa, etc. blah blah blah are not illegal in themselves, but you infringe upon the law when you share or transmit copyrighted materials to others. The catch is that they'll probably never prosecute you because it's too much trouble...well the Recording Industry Association of America (it's Canadian counter-part is trying the same tactic) did get the courts to authorize the release of IPs by the ISPs of various people (like 12 year old girls) who shared music over Sharman Network's Kazaa. Napster died a similar death years ago because it was too centralized.

The beauty of torrents is that it's completely decentralized. There's nowhere to hunt except for the sites that actually host the torrent files...but those will eventually become free-floating too.
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