File sharing (peer to peer) legal???

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Posted by DJ Laz on Oct-20-2004 21:39:

File sharing (peer to peer) legal???

This thread might be closed...

anyhow
I'm taking American Popular Music, at my college UC santa cruz, my professor Lieberman says it is legal as of right now for peer to peer file sharing. He is advocating us to download some music while it is still legal for the class.

Comments?

btw.. TA i dont mean for TA to encourage file sharing.

Posted by hooknife on Oct-20-2004 21:42:

I live in the US and it�s on the news pretty much everyday that the RIAA is now suing someone new that is downloading music. If it�s legal I have been living under a rock.

Posted by DJ Laz on Oct-20-2004 21:43:

lol i live in the US too..

im going to university california at santa cruz. i mean if a professor says its ok and this guy is pretty involved in the music industry i heard he's suing dr. dre and has worked with elton john or something like that. well i don;t know... just saying.

Posted by Cloudburst on Oct-20-2004 21:58:

In Sweden it's legal to download but it's illegal to share...

Posted by n0bben on Oct-20-2004 22:07:

i heard it was going to be legal both ways in norway now .. maybe im wrong, dunno .. i just read briefly

Posted by Snooper on Oct-20-2004 22:13:

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Originally posted by n0bben-
i heard it was going to be legal both ways in norway now .. maybe im wrong, dunno .. i just read briefly

Both sharing and downloading is legal in Norway atm. It's possible that it will get illegal in the future though, not quite sure on the status on that.

Posted by nwopper on Oct-20-2004 22:28:

Here several agency's (Brein Institute) are busy with a witch hunt against illegal filesharing/downloading.... I admit I do download....but I also bought three cd's this week (last week five)...so I do support artists (I guess).... Mostly I download to check artists out whether I like them or not....

But here in Holland it is kinda concidered illegal....

Posted by Orko on Oct-20-2004 22:31:

Re: File sharing (peer to peer) legal???

quote:
Originally posted by DJ Laz
This thread might be closed...

anyhow
I'm taking American Popular Music, at my college UC santa cruz, my professor Lieberman says it is legal as of right now for peer to peer file sharing. He is advocating us to download some music while it is still legal for the class.

Comments?

btw.. TA i dont mean for TA to encourage file sharing.

well if you wanna download NON-copyrighted material, go a head and download and share as much as you want.

But distributing copy-righted material is still illegal

Posted by TheVrk on Oct-20-2004 22:32:

it is also legal in canada, but i do my best