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Originally Posted by Zero Signal
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Originally Posted by punkgrrrlie10
2. Regardless of how much you may hate it, P2P is stealing and is infringing copyright. Just b/c you want it for free doesn't mean you can just take it.
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Wrong. Is owning a gun commiting murder just because it can be done with one? No. P2P is not an illegal concept or execution. What people do with it that infringes on others rights, is. As a law student, I would have thought you would painfully make that clear and not overgeneralize it.
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not everything P2P is stealing, so long as there is permission to do so, which is where good faith comes in. It wouldn't apply if you were making your own music and you send it to a friend or make it available for download to your friends, however, that doesn't mean that you making available a song by Nirvana to your friends, that now both of you aren't infringing copyright. Good faith is premised on standing which is they can't assert rights unless it belongs to them. You can't say that Joe Bob is infringing Mary Joe's copyright unless you are Mary Joe. I didn't think I had to make things painfully clear since I assume a modicum of intelligence from this forum w/the exception of vince.