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Originally Posted by Gerco
Um... he took material he did not own rights to and illegally gave it to others... Exactly how do you see that as not being a crime?
Sometimes I think you like to sitting around and sniff your own farts.
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the question of the right to songs were never established
he might have had a right under any one of the multiple fair uses
he could have been format shifting the content from cd he already owned choosing to simple click a couple of links to get the mp3 thru kazza instead of hunting thru his cd ripping them all one at a time .
he could have gotten permission from the artist themselves as is the case from
http://torrentfreak.com/raiohead-to-...e-riaa-090404/
which was some of the songs originally listed from the begining (but later removed)
or he could have been simply "timeshifting" listen from the radio play paid for to another time.
one thing is absolutely certain he is only proven to have given the song to someone who was authorized by the copyrightholders agent to download it.
You may want to guess that other people not authorized similar downloaded the file, but that would violate the principle of being innocent until proven guilty since it also likely that noone else connected to his offering.