Has their seriously been at least prosecution for someone downloading music illegally. I see many if the posts on this site as well as others are posts asking if such programs like limewire, and bearshare. While the programs are legal to download and use, the copyright laws could be violated with what you download with them, regardless I wont give up my pron with whatever law they pass.
Has there seriously ever been one case of someone that was prosecuted for downloading music. Keep in mind I said music, meaning not other content and not some zombie server machine that downloads 100k songs every 3 hours and hosts them up on an FTP server to share. Just some normal person downloading songs, if you need a number less than 50 a week.
2006-10-27 06:41:56 · 3 answers · asked by D 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Has their seriously been at least one prosecution for somoene downloading music?
I'm not sure why one was considered a typo, but it got cut off the subject line.
2006-10-27 06:49:06 · update #1
Provide sources please
2006-10-27 06:55:42 · update #2
People usually only get in trouble for Uploading the material. I've personally never heard of someone getting in trouble for just downloading.
The news might say downloading when the person was actually serving files to other users but the news is stupid and doesnt know the difference.
2006-10-27 06:51:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I've heard of cases, but I'm not sure. Code 341.322.12 of the Internet Privacy Act of 1995 says that a person can't be lured into copyright violation for the purpose of prosecution, and any trading I do is protected by that. I think if you delete it from your computer within 24 hours, you're safe.
2006-10-27 06:55:59 · answer #2 · answered by me41987 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes there have been prosecutions for downloading music, it happened at Virginia Tech 2 or 3 years ago. was in the news.
2006-10-27 06:54:11 · answer #3 · answered by carmen 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋