Mikmik
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If so I would like to pick someones brains about what is / is not safe to download. The basis of my question is this: why is it legal for Charity Shops to sell copyrighted material and profit from it, but illegal for me to share material for free? Particularly material I have paid for. Could my ISP disbar me for downloading? Or is it uploading that breaks the law?
It is a simple point but the deeper you think about it the more complex it gets.
One example: whilst downloading material via a magnetic torrent which is acquired with no money exchanged you also, through that time, make a proportion of it available for upload. Probably illegal. However buying the same material on the highstreet, is as likely as not illegal. In the latter case there is a full exchange of copyright material from the donator (presumed owner) to the Charity Shop and then further exchange for profit. In my illegal case there is only partial exchange from me (non owner) to a 3rd party, though initially the donor (torrent originator, presumed owner) gifted the material to me.
I do not want to rob any legitimate copyright holder of a royalty. To take this to its absurd conclusion, should I make a voluntary contribution to the publisher and/or copyright holder? If so, how much? And are Charity Shops exempt from the law? How are second hand shops not in breach of any piracy provisions?
I live under the jurisdiction of English law. And am confused by it.
Mike
It is a simple point but the deeper you think about it the more complex it gets.
One example: whilst downloading material via a magnetic torrent which is acquired with no money exchanged you also, through that time, make a proportion of it available for upload. Probably illegal. However buying the same material on the highstreet, is as likely as not illegal. In the latter case there is a full exchange of copyright material from the donator (presumed owner) to the Charity Shop and then further exchange for profit. In my illegal case there is only partial exchange from me (non owner) to a 3rd party, though initially the donor (torrent originator, presumed owner) gifted the material to me.
I do not want to rob any legitimate copyright holder of a royalty. To take this to its absurd conclusion, should I make a voluntary contribution to the publisher and/or copyright holder? If so, how much? And are Charity Shops exempt from the law? How are second hand shops not in breach of any piracy provisions?
I live under the jurisdiction of English law. And am confused by it.
Mike























