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Defining Piracy

Piracy was once a word synonymous with the sea and rebellious sailors sailing across the ocean and plundering merchant vessels en route to their destinations. In more recent years, however, piracy is a word having to do with plagiarism. Most specifically, lawsuits against piracy is being aimed at online downloads/uploads where individuals are sharing content [...]

2008 11 08 eLawFacts copyright
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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)