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join:2003-08-10
038xx | reply to Cabal
Re: more american competition at it's best said by Cabal:Which category does illegally using the copyrighted works of others for profit fall under? (Note: for reference, this is still theft.) Suits are civil, theft is tried in criminal courts.
As of last year, overt filesharing of copyrighted material (within the US) is a crime, but by the endusers sharing the files, not by hosting servers. Hosts are exposed on the civil side if they they fail to exhibit due-diligence in notification and take-down.
People have been abusing the distinction *way* to much of late. |
