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Originally Posted by Nautilus
Yes it is legal to share your copy of the copyrighted work with your family and closest friends:
Section 101,
2 the definitional section of the Act, explains that
3 [t]o perform or display a work ?publicly? means (1) to
4 perform or display it at a place open to the public or at
5 any place where a substantial number of persons outside of a
6 normal circle of a family and its social acquaintances is
7 gathered; or (2) to transmit or otherwise communicate a
8 performance or display of the work to a place specified by
9 clause (1) or to the public, by means of any device or
10 process, whether the members of the public capable of
11 receiving the performance or display receive it in the same
12 place or in separate places and at the same time or at
13 different times.
Thus, if you seeded your copy of the say "District #9" at a public torrent site, and got sued, you'll need to convince the judge that all half a billion people who downloaded it are your family and friends if you want to come clean out of the courtroom - because if they're not your family and friends, your actions will be considered public broadcast which is an infringement.
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or prove that you are not giving anyone a working copy of the file and are therefore not creating a single infringement
see above.
When you take into account that seeder does control the number of copies of pieces that each leacher makes and no working copy exist until more then n-1 pieces are copied and traded. the arguement that you are in and of itself sharing with a billion people because a billion people make personal private copy from a swarm initiated but not controlled by you is total bullshit.
This case makes that arguement a lot easier (see above).
Once that ruling comes down the torrent recorder will be sellable.
whoo hoo