Comment by Amadou
12 years ago
Note: Just because I don't have any cases offhand of my friends fined for jaywalking, doesn't mean it isn't against the law.
That's putting your arguments into the realm of faith. If those three citations are any indication, your faith is misplaced. All of those were for people doing distribution (e.g. uploading). None of them were for downloading.
I don't think it is much to ask for you to have just one definite case to back up your claim that the legality of downloading is not in dispute. Just one.
Here's one for jaywalking: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/radley-balko/raquel-nelson-jai...
Somehow there's this weird gap where people completely freak out over the difference between stealing and copying, but the difference between uploading and downloading just slides right by.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=fined+for+downloading
I went through the first four hits on that. All of them included uploading. Please pick a case that you are confident supports your claims and then we can examine it.
As a point of order, the surest way to admit you are wrong is to tell the other person to "google it." It isn't anyone else's job to prove you are right.