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Originally Posted by kane
If you didn't pay for it and you are downloading it without permission it is illegal. Since when has it not been? It is the basis of the copyright law.
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http://www.copyright.gov/title17/
here the act want to show me the exact line of the act that says if you download without paying it is ALWAYS illegal.
The copyright act is not that absolute, it has always been a conditional monopoly that has to respect the conditions of fair use.
I just showed you the argument the Canadian supreme court used to recognize for "access shifting"
kim dot com is making the exact same argument as his defense in this interview
and he has a right to do so under the current copyright act.
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You yourself have argued that you only download stuff you have paid for.
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yes because at the time that i said that access shifting had not been validated by the supreme court yet.
The concept that violating geographic restrictions is NOT a copyright infringement /Is fair dealing has been validated.
i still only download stuff i paid for, because there hasn't been anything i wanted to see that was geo restricted.