Peter Keel wrote:
- on the Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 03:01:44PM +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote:
How exactly would it do that? People using P2P (and don't forget NTTP and various other methods) for downloading illegal (aka stuff that is copyrighted) content do so because they don't want to pay for the content.
Stop right there.
Nobody is downloading "illegal content". It's the UPloading aka sharing of copyright-protected content without a proper license which is illegal.
Depends completely on country. Nevertheless, even though in Switzerland the downloading might be illegal, the having of content that you didn't pay proper licensing/copyright fees for is still illegal... to put it simple: if the cops run into your house with a court order there is no way for you to prove that you got that data purely by 'downloading' or that you bought a stack of the stuff from somebody...
Greets, Jeroen