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Comment by Manuel_D

3 days ago

Correct: it's copyright infringement, not theft.

But the point is the movie industry has been trying to tell us that it is stealing.

"You wouldn't still a car" etc etc..

Which is on the side of the distributor, not the end recipient.

  • For streaming yes, but downloads are still copyright infringement on the part of the downloader. An unauthorized copy is being made on the recipient's machine. It's true that copyright holders rarely pursue cases against individuals, and tend to focus on distributors though.

    • Have there been any cases since the Meta ruling with the books they torrented? If I understood it right they argued and won that they didn’t seed any of the torrents so is fair use and the judge agreed. That case made it seem like as long as you don’t seed/distribute the copyrighted material then it is legal

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