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Originally Posted by 12clicksMichele
I am sure this is going to come across as a really stupid question but here it goes:
Are they only going after the people that upload and share as adverse to someone that would just download?
I am just curious. Seems the cases I have read about rely on people that share the files.
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In theory, no. In practice, yes.
It's rather hard to find out that someone has been downloading something - unless he downloads it from organizations affiliated with the record companies, which could be taken as implied consent from the record companies.
Of course, with software like bittorrent, virtually every downloader is also an uploader.