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blunder1983 · Joined: 12 Apr 2005

So I enjoy Lost and I download it everyweek off Torrentspy.

I'm curious, is that legal? I live in the UK so I technically I couldn't get it yet, but what about someone in the US, it'd be ok for a friend to video it and then sending across.

I've always wondered, seems a pretty grey area.

Wrench · Joined: 07 Apr 2005

I think on the most part its no.. I know that any show that is available on sale either on video casette or dvd is illegal to distribute even if its ripped of tv.

Pangit · Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Location: Puet mo.

There's no grey area. It's illegal.

blunder1983 · Joined: 12 Apr 2005

So if I videoed something off tv I am also breaking the law? How about if I gave it to a friend? I'm interested in how the medias compare.

Its no biggie tho, if peeps are gonna stop illegal stuff in Korea I'll worry when the bootleg dvd runners are all shut down in yongsan Smile

Gord · Joined: 25 Feb 2003

peppermint · Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 2:18 am Post subject:

one of my friends works in intellectual property law and I asked him about this kind of thing.

According to him, if the thing being downloaded isn't available by normal commercial means, then that's a valid excuse in many jurisdictions

I_Am_Wrong · Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Location: whatever

the standard for criminality was always distribution for the purposes of proft. this stuff has been going on way before the internet, remember blank tapes? I remember having about 300-400 copied tapes in a pile in the back seat of my car in high school. As far as I'm concerned, the internet has provided an easy excuse for companies to get "lost revenues," because they couldn't do anything about it prior.