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"MP3 Downloading And Laws"

I myself love a good song and as the majority of people, i have downloaded songs off the internet in the past. What i have recently found out is rather shocking. File-Sharing, is illegal. And if you download any song, thats fine, but it must be deleted within 24 hours. Is that all? Or anything else i should know about?

I download files of all types. I can admit that freely. I'm just asking to be taken to a court of law aren't I?

Hoju wrote:
> I download music all the time. Whos going to catch me. Ha.


It's entirely possible you'll be caught. It was on the news a few weeks ago that quite a few people had been caught. Someone had downloaded about nine thousand songs and had to pay a fine of quite a few thousand pounds.

Was a common rumour spread on emulation sites was that ol' 24 hour rule - utter carp however.

Hoju wrote:
> I download music all the time. Whos going to catch me. Ha.
>
> [S]*looks around shiftily*[S]

You'd be suprised, I think it was ChippXero who got an angry letter from Paramount once for downloading.

The 24 hours thing is bull isn't it? And you didn't know that downloading songs that you normally buy for free wasn't illegal? I'm not even going to comment on that one.

I download music all the time. Whos going to catch me. Ha.

[S]*looks around shiftily*[S]

The Winster wrote:
> unexpectable

Wha cha?

phi11ip wrote:
> Don't share and they won't sue you! They wanna kill off the people
> providing the music so that they don't have to worry about the people
> downloading because there's nothing to download.

Pretty much. I suppose I should stop telling people not to share otherwise I'll kill off my own supply of music.

The Winster wrote:
> You've missed my point. Now that theyve declared that file sharing is
> legal, there is not much the RIAA can do to prevent commercial music
> being shared out on P2Ps; an the owners dont even need to worry.
>
> Also, remember that none of the P2Ps advertise themselves using their
> legalised activities, all of them advertise themselves as "dl
> free music".

They can't stop the music being shared by attacking the P2P systems, but they can stop it being shared by suing the end user who has the illegally obtained music.

If you share music, you will eventually get caught.

MJ wrote:
> Don't share and it makes everything a whole lot harder to prove.

Don't share and they won't sue you! They wanna kill off the people providing the music so that they don't have to worry about the people downloading because there's nothing to download.