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Thread ID: 129057 2013-01-30 21:27:00 First person fined under copyright laws Iantech (16386) PC World Chat
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1325724 2013-01-31 02:48:00 Not many pirates on this thread then..... Digby (677)
1325725 2013-01-31 02:51:00 Not many pirates on this thread then.....

Just R2, currently
Gobe1 (6290)
1325726 2013-01-31 03:07:00 Yeah Magnets are basically torrents but without requiring you to "download" the .torrent

You'll still get caught if you fire up uTorrent and use a Magnet link to the latest Hobbit film... So don't do it ;)
Chilling_Silence (9)
1325727 2013-01-31 03:23:00 magnet links actually download the torrent file to ur torrent program's appdata folder. jonovw (16835)
1325728 2013-01-31 03:56:00 What is the legality of downloading from Utube? There must be some material on Utube that is copyrighted, full length movies for instance. Bobh (5192)
1325729 2013-01-31 04:12:00 There is but its not explicitly defined under this new law, just under traditional laws. You can do it and there's no real way for anybody to know if you're using something like savemedia.com vs just straight streaming it, and you won't get caught under this new law. Chilling_Silence (9)
1325730 2013-01-31 04:46:00 I use a seedbox :) DeSade (984)
1325731 2013-01-31 05:52:00 Well, this conversation helped remind me that I still had more seeding to do.

I d/l'd some albums I already own, from 30 years ago, on vinyl. Couldn't be bothered to dig out the record, or to find the rips I'd made of them, so I got them via a torrent.

Not expecting any drama with 30 year old media, and still not even had a first strike, so I'm happy to do much as I have done above.
And not happy to pay for fresh copies of content I've already bought.

Lets see, the greedy RIAA wants me to buy it on vinyl, then buy it on cassette, then buy it on CD, then buy it on video DVD, then buy it again as mp3 or similar.
I don't get paid over and over for my works, so why should the RIAA.

Does the guy who designed the lid on the milk bottle get paid every time you open and close the bottle?
Do you have to pay Fontera a milk bottle royaly if you re-use your milk bottle for a boat bailer?
So why does the RIAA expect to get paid for every which way you play content you already own?

Rant over.

Getting 'latest' or 'popular' media via an open torrent however is asking for trouble.
Paul.Cov (425)
1325732 2013-01-31 08:13:00 There will be lots of people around the country that download songs and get away with it. Its only those who are not that clued up computers that will get caught. If the pesron wanted the song bad enough why download it when you can go onto the Marbecks Digital website and buy the song/s legally. QW. (15883)
1325733 2013-01-31 08:21:00 There will be lots of people around the country that download songs and get away with it. Its only those who are not that clued up computers that will get caught. If the pesron wanted the song bad enough why download it when you can go onto the Marbecks Digital website and buy the song/s legally.

Usually because all you can buy is a crappy MP3 version not a decent .flac version
gary67 (56)
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