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Originally Posted by sortie
Maybe you should take the time to re-read what I said.
I didn't say "copy books and keep them at home for myself".
I said "copy books and make them available to others".
Big difference.
One is a crime.
The other is something that very few would persure to prosecute even if it is a crime.
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Exactly, thank you. One is now, after numerous and fairly recent changes in legislation, prosecuted as a crime in most countries. It used to be that you had to actually
make money for it to be copyright infringement, but since the Internet came around, it's been widely shown that you can actually make people
lose money through proliferation of intellectual property. From a legal standpoint it's still a tricky law though, since you're asking a court to imagine the money you could have theoretically earned, had things been different... which is why this is SO FAR from traditional stealing. It's also why the advertising on torrent sites is where people need to focus, because if there's something as tangible as actual advertising revenue to go after, it becomes so much easer legally to shut them down. The hardest torrent site to crack is still the one that operates without any measurable financial gain.