dependswhere you live and what is your chosen method of thievery. Using the bit torrent network deems you a distributor as soon as you download due to the shared nature of it. It's not all wine and roses.
However the cases being brought to court are mainly the RIAA against people they find on Kazaa supplying over 1000 songs and the MPAA against first seed distributors of blockbuster movies.
I've been there and done that. Was sued for 2 grand about 12 years ago over my abandonware site. I even tried to buy psygnosis software ( for the back catalogue ) but Sony procured it for the name. Long story but basically the UK copyright law has not changed in donkey's years but will do in the next 5.
(However the cases being brought to court are mainly the RIAA against people they find on Kazaa supplying over 1000 songs and the MPAA against first seed distributors of blockbuster movies.
I've been there and done that. Was sued for 2 grand about 12 years ago over my abandonware site. I even tried to buy psygnosis software ( for the back catalogue ) but Sony procured it for the name. Long story but basically the UK copyright law has not changed in donkey's years but will do in the next 5.
Zoot Cadillac . do androids dream of electric sheep?,
Sat 20 Aug 2005, 17:47,
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