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- Do not host complete file anywhere..
- Only when streaming reassemble the files from multiple incomplete sources.. The whole copyrighted file is never in one place at one time. Wouldn't this be legal?
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- Needs a Correction:
- [i]"He and his partners thumb their noses at U.S. and European copyright laws in letters to studios and game makers, who send them cease-and-desist letters that they post on their site."[/i] Actually, having read the Pirate Bay's legal threats section, they (very) patiently explain (in very easy-to-understand terms, and right before the insults) that in accordance with Swedish law, merely posting a link to infringing material is not considered a copyright violation. Conceptually, they are correct. the link itself is not an infringing item... an HTTP anchor reference link to an infringing item is obviously not a copyrighted item by the infringed content creator in and of itself... whether the content which that link leads to infringes or not. This is the entire legal linchpin upon which Pirate Bay exists. Get Sweden's Parliament to make links to infringing content equivalent to actual infringing content, and you might get 'em shut down. Of course, the very through that a mere link is equivalent to the infringed material is rather (IMHO) a dangerous precedent, and (again, IMHO) should be banned from being even considered as such in the US and EU. Oh, and last time I checked, Sweden is still in Europe. Perhaps you may want to specify EU copyright law as opposed to Swedish copyright law, no? /P
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- Never use this virus-trojan site exchange
- Watch out with these guys. Once you get in their site your computer will be swamped with multiple trojans. If you happen to download anything without an anti-virus scanning...get ready to format your hard drive.
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