Infringement question for downloading a game!?

Question

I have a copy of call of duty 4 for PS3 and my friend said i own the license to copy and use it for my own use, so i use bitlord to download it for PC and i get an email from comcast (my service provider) saying EA games contacted them telling them i broke copyright laws and such. well they dont know i have a copy of the game for a different console. Also, if that doesn't change the fact what will happen? will i be fined or something? i think if i got the game for PS3 it wouldnt matter if i got for PC to play with a friend.

ALSO - I stopped downloading the game at 0.9% cause i decided not to get it but didnt remove it from the loaded for a couple days, i just kept it on pause, does that matter?

Thanks.

P.S. - this is what they sent me...


Dear Comcast High-Speed Internet Subscriber:

Comcast has received a notification by a copyright owner, or its authorized
agent, reporting an alleged infringement of one or more copyrighted works made
on or over Comcast's High-Speed Internet service (the 'Service'). The copyright
owner has identified the Internet Protocol ('IP') address associated with your
Service account at the time as the source of the infringing works. The works
identified by the copyright owner in its notification are listed below. Comcast
reminds you that use of the Service (or any part of the Service) in any manner
that constitutes an infringement of any copyrighted work is a violation of
Comcast's Acceptable Use Policy and may result in the suspension or termination
of your Service account.

Answer 1

No you don't get to download a copy of a game just because you already own a version.

Think of it this way. Suppose you were walking out of a music store with an armload of un-paid-for music CDs. Could you protest to the store owner that you had previously bought a disk and these were just "spares" for you to use at home. It is still shoplifting! buying one CD does not give you permission to take more at a later time.

You probably have a reasonable right to make a copy, if it is made from the disk you already own, for your personal use. A download is not a copy of the disk you already own, however similar it might be.

Answer 2

The copy you own for PS3 is yours to do with what you will. So long as, you don't make any money selling subsiquent copies. Using a torrent program is illegal and copyright infringement. More than likely, you'll get a cease and desist letter in the mail. If you continue, you may face monotary or legal repocutions.

Answer 3

The end-user license your friend refered to applies only to the copy you purchased for your PS3. It does not cover copying that game to other consoles. One of the earlier answers said that it is legal as long as you don't make money off of it...that is false. The simple act of copying it, or attempting to copyit, is copyright infringement. It does not matter whether or not you made any money by selling it. You're probably looking at federal fines of at least $5,000 if not more. Theorhetically you could also be sent to federal prison for it.

Answer 4

amazing, comcast said that they weren't monitoring use of their bandwidth. This would be a great misdirection case onto comcast's part since their claims are false and unfaithful to their customers. Iono about you, but if i were a lawyer i would definitely eye this case since this exposes an entire corrupt cable company...