Talking of online Music
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That will certainly make a difference, yes. Hosting copyrighted materials is not necessarily against the law everywhere (e.g. China or other Far Eastern countries seem to have a different attitude to piracy, or Sweden – c.f. Pirate Bay), and it is also not enforced everywhere (e.g. Russia). US law doesn't have any weight in such places.
BobJanova wrote:
Sweden – c.f. Pirate Bay
Actually it's illegal to host copyrighted MP3's, movies, etc in Sweden. Piratebay comes around it by not hosting the files themselves, all the users has them and you download it from another user. Piratebay just tells you where to find a file to download... So the the downloader and the user that shares it are doing something illegal. So even though it's not popular with record labels or the movie industry, Pireatebay is legal in Sweden.
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And those scissors won't run with themselves, you know.
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BobJanova wrote:
Sweden – c.f. Pirate Bay
Actually it's illegal to host copyrighted MP3's, movies, etc in Sweden. Piratebay comes around it by not hosting the files themselves, all the users has them and you download it from another user. Piratebay just tells you where to find a file to download... So the the downloader and the user that shares it are doing something illegal. So even though it's not popular with record labels or the movie industry, Pireatebay is legal in Sweden.
Ah yes, you are correct. But the point still holds that some things that would be shut down in the US (file sharing service providers) are legal even in some western countries. Outright hosting of copyrighted material is either legal or not enforced in at least China and Russia (and I'm sure many other countries).
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Aamir Butt wrote:
You can literally download a plethora of illegal mp3s from this site
Far easier to find a video on YT with good audio and strip it into an MP3 from the stream. Just for kicks I tried the site. Looks like the typical phishing pond with the "you must download this to get that" thing going on; still I plugged in a test song name (Rainbow's 'Since you've been gone')... found one, clicked on the download and got redirected to some other site hosting a file. The clincher was that it wasn't even the whole song, just a fragment :laugh: - joke's on me! We've come a long way since the Audio Galaxy and Napster (pre corporate Napster that is) days :suss: -- RP