Text 19848, 39 rader
Skriven 2011-06-08 12:46:41 av Joe Delahaye (17275.fidonews)
  Kommentar till text 19839 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
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  By: Robert Bashe to Joe Delahaye on Wed Jun 08 2011 08:00:40

 > In addition, there are plenty of sites where you can download TV series.
 > Naturally not legal, but they exist and nowadays (using Rapidshare and
 > various other similar sites), practically no legal risk is involved.

I'm aware they exist.  Not interested in that in any case, as most of the time,
the quality of those are not very good, from what I h ave seen.

 >
 > In many countries, including Germany, only _up_loading of copyrighted
 > material is illegal. Mere download is not.
 >
Dont know what the laws are regarding such , here.  I do know the terms of
service state you must own the copyright, or, have permission to upload video.


 > Aside from which, such sites keep no records on who _down_loads a
 > particular file (in contrast to the situation with torrents, where the IP
 > addresses of downloaders - which are also involuntary uploaders - can be
 > relatively easily determined. Thus, the legal eagles of the content
 > industry generally concentrate on removing copyrighted material, which is
 > also not easy, since the names of the files rarely reflect the content.

Nevertheless they seem to have a lot of success, with only a few failures as of
late.  Too aggressive in my opinion.

 >
 > P.S. What the heck is "UMG"? Never heard of whatever that is.
 > P.P.S. You can also use a proxy to fake the IP and thus access the site,
 > but that was more trouble than I wanted to take for this.
 >


No idea what UMG stands for either.  Cant be bothered trying to figure out how
to use a proxie.  Have never done so, so not familiar with it.
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