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Contributory Copyright Infringment and Illegal Linking

Contributory copyright infringement is the act of linking to or transmitting information on how to access copyrighted material illegally from another source. For example posting a link to an illegitimate download of a song would be contributory copyright infringement. You might not be hosting the song on your server, and you might not have been [...]

2008 10 02 eLawFacts copyright Comments (0)

Are Warez, Piracy and Torrent Downloads of Copyrighted Material Illegal?

The answer is yes, downloading or streaming copyrighted material without purchasing legitimately from it’s owner is illegal. The source of the download does not matter, whether it is from LimeWire, BitTorrent, Youtube, Newsgroups or even physical sources like a flash drive. That doesn’t mean that illegal downloading doesn’t happen on the internet, because it most [...]

2008 09 18 eLawFacts copyright Comments (0)