I was initally downloading the same software from the adobe website on a trial basis, but it was terribly slow, and I have downloaded trials from torrent sites before and this has never happened up until now. The only other thing i have downloaded was a adobe trial which was really big and boring…So yea that really my question. I downloaded a game from what I thought was a real company but come to find out I had paid a person that had no connection to the game at all and then they threatened to charge me for copy right infringement so be careful.
Hi Thank you so much. I got the full benefit from this. My question is: I have read in some sites that the torrent is legal. I do need to download so many things I can not pay for. Why do not they do it? Well quiet frankly I didnt know bit torrents where illegal i have downloaded a couple of older games that i didnt even know they had for pc but with all this warnings coming in the mail to people iam honestly getting kind of scared besides i have no money to pay a big fine for something so simple.
I think that the law system in the USA is quiet messed up and upside down in some aspects but what can 1 voice change? Like one of the previous reader posted on top what will a leak of couple of thousand dollars , dollars do to their billion dollar industry comon people thats like a penny from a dollar.
I can be accused of falling into the instant gratification instant gratification gave me. In other words, if you want it buy it. Unfortunately, downloading or uploading any piece of software, game, or music without the necessary copyright agreement is a violation of the copyright.
Being in the web development industry I can see both sides of the arguement, as companies are losing money from their product not being paid for. On the flip side, many recording artists, or companies are just lining their pockets with the extra revenue.
What are the minimum and maximum sentences? Are the chances of being caught and the consequences associated with them even influencing the way people torrent? Is our legal system incompetent to the rapidly growing technology? Now the people getting caught, are they getting punished for sharing files or just downloading the Torrent?
What is the difference between sharing online, and handing the physical DVD or game to a friend to try or view??? How many of us have shared our movies with friends and families or a CD??? Which then brings up a question about the movies and games that are rented from a video store. The video store is not giving royalties to the production corporations……Hmmmmm— How does that work??? All of this sounds like nonsense to me. It is crazy especially when dealing with the internet.
The only reason why people are using the internet and the advance technology is because they have the ability to copy a file or movie that may have purchased and would love to protect their investment by making a copy.
This stops then from buying another music cd, movie, or another copy of application in the future which may be hard to find or the price has gone up.
Once that happen, you will wonder what happen to the internet and the technology. I say get rid of the internet if it involves downloading a file, sales, or just viewing a movie.
In a case where I legally purchased an album digitally, would it be legal to redownload that album, considering you already bought it elsewhere?
One would think, but this is one reason why people hate DRM so much. Unless you have a way to download the original from iTunes again, it is apparently still illegal to redownload the album from elsewhere. Stupid, IMO, but apparently the way it is. As always remember:. Because i know downloading movies is but im not sure about Series…. Then if I share it with a friend by sending it over the internet does that make it illegal? HI I am now even more confused. Please clarify.. If I use different torrent website to download movies and music not sure about copyright status , is it illegal?
Can I get in trouble?? Ok, I understand exactly what you are saying and am grateful for the insight. Thank you.
Since I already purchased a VHS copy of these movies is it still illegal to download a copy from a torrent sharing site? IS it illigal to download pictures that are not copyrighted and post them on a website that you are building? Would if you download a picture that was not copyrighted but you get a letter from a lawyer stated it was. Maybe someone before you downloaded a copyrighted picture and you just copied it from him. How would you know that it was copyrighted? Let me see if I have this right!!
If I download torrent and start download music or movies; it coming from a share file so it would not be illegal to do that. But if I use it to download music or movies that are copyright from the computer than it illegal. So, let me get this right.
So, you can use BitTorrent to re-download the track, right? So let me say this. Say I download a movie from a website as a torrent. Is it ok? Still in torrent format. What are the chances of getting caught if you downloaded movies, say from a popular torrent site.
Thanks for the article. I absolutely LOVE it! Also, there is currently a worldwide convention going on with all kinds of governments and law enforcement agencies to attempt to come up with enforcement and penalties having to do with copyrighted material on the Internet. It is still in the discussion phase and like anything of that magnitude, it changes day by day. Some of it is mind blowing on the penalty side of things with some very draconian punishments.
The negotiations are still considered secret but new reports are regularly leaked. They are down-loadable in PDF format. The last one I got was from July 10, The agreement covers everything from fake Gucci bags to pirated software. Read it and be afraid! There are groups trying to fight it or at least bring an element of sanity to it. Please find and join one. Is it legal to provide search for torrent files. Is this true? Thanks for another great article Leo. These developers claim no right to restrict distribution otherwise, so as long as you follow those guidelines, you are free to do as you will with said goods.
Once it is publicly declared in the GPL, I believe, they legally forfeit any right to restrict distribution beyond those general terms. Does this mean that it is illegal to accept a book from someone because the book is copyrighted and I did not pay for it?
Sadly, my DVR restricts this. Of course the ISPs will. Comcast and Verizon will set you up with a DVR and you can record anything that comes down the service, including sports events, movies, TV shows, local news, anything.
As I mentioned elsewhere — I am severely restricted in how I can use that recording. Never seen so many comments on a topic here, or so many responses from Leo. He is correct of course, breaching copyright is illegal. The trouble is, it is also very common. Like marijuana use and prostitution except in McKeesport it will have to be made legal eventually. Those who make available original creative work are going to have to come up with a different pricing structure.
The pricing structure is completely irrelevant. E-books that would cost a buck to buy are illegally shared. Services such as Netflix, Spotify and Kindle Unlimited provide very cheap access an enormous collection of movies, TV shows, music and books — and yet people still choose to download material illegally.
As I said, illegal file sharing has nothing to do with things being overpriced; it has to do with people not wanting to pay anything at all and preferring to steal. For the most part I agree with your intent, but using P2P is and has a legitimate purpose and for those who use those excuses can offer credibility to their opinion even though not correct in law depending on the country you live in. You need to remember P2P is a world wide phenomenon and not everybody earns a western blue collar salary.
If you want to resolve the problem you need to listen to them. However the pursuit of the all mighty US dollar tends to be a hurdle and now we have a copyright cluster. To answer, because the services these companies provide around the world are seriously lacking in the provision of comparable content and pricing. This is experienced in particular by the NZ and Aussie customers and was quite clearly outlined in the Australian parliament when they instituted the new piracy laws in Go to the torrent freak blog to read the transcripts or go to the Australian Federal Govt website and you can access them directly.
There is also a very simple solution to the issue too by the way. You are entirely off the mark here and the TV comment is out of context with the issue at hand. The TV as it is a physical item, ones and zeros Binary Code are not physical so there is popularly a different perspective around the world regarding code and physical items and whether your stealing, Education is a good start.
Not everybody is a thief and in a lot of cases it has much to do with being overpriced, your economic and geographic situation. Once again there is a solution to this issue. We are not subject to American Law here so what constitutes an offence in the US, it is not necessarily so here. The fact that a content owner will not permit Netflix, Hulu et al to make their content available in a certain region does not make it acceptable for people who live in that region to steal the content.
And as for people living in Mumbai not being able to afford the content: so what? Unfortunately some of your last comment is a bit like an over easy egg…. S services offered in my country because I can get better service from them by going off shore. I still pay my subscriptions to obtain legitimate access.
So is that stealing? I am entitled to my privacy both in the real world and in the cyber. We both know it is pretty lawless, uncontrolled and unscrupulous on the www.
Security, Security, Security, always. The Mumbai comment was an example, a good one or bad who knows, but what I am trying to illustrate to you is this, where the copyright material is being torrented i. Copyright trolls are individuals or companies that are in the business of going after torrent pirates. These businesses locate torrenters who illegally distribute copyrighted material based on their IP addresses.
When they successfully locate a torrent pirate, they sign a deal of approval with the copyright holders to take legal actions on their behalf against the pirate. In some cases, Hollywood production companies hire these businesses to specifically snoop on pirates distributing their content illegally.
Typically, copyright trolls have a legal strategy in place that summons the ISP to send you an threatening email. So, when you get caught for torrenting unsanctioned copyrighted material, you could receive a settlement offer from your ISP. In most cases, I would ignore the first settlement letter.
In most countries, such as the U. For instance, your ISP could reduce your internet speed as a punishment or even threaten to hand over your personal information to the authorities or copyright trolls. Obviously, if you want to avoid ramifications, it would be best not to torrent at all. Note: choose a quality VPN for high-end protection. The Tor browser prevents anyone from tracking your internet connection.
Tor encrypts the data multiple times via Tor relays. Tor is a browser often used by journalists and activists in countries where internet traffic is tightly monitored.
You can read more on setting up the Tor browser here. My last recommendation is to be smart when torrenting by avoiding the latest movies, games and music. Copyright trolls are more likely to be snooping around in these torrents due to the high number of torrenters downloading the latest releases. Many avid torrenters have made the transition from uTorrent and BitTorrent to streamed content. Kodi and Plex are both open-source software media centers.
The software allows you to stream and play all kinds of content, such as videos and music, on various devices. Unlike Netflix, Kodi and Plex both stream copyrighted content without permission from the copyright holders. Because of this, Kodi is under a lot of legal pressure at the time of this writing, so you might have to look for an alternative in the future. What it comes down to is this: from a legal perspective, streaming copyrighted material from a pirated source is illegal.
If you want to protect your online privacy and avoid potential legal ramifications when streaming, simply follow the precautions listed above. Remember that your ISP and copyright trolls constantly monitor peer-to-peer networks such as uTorrent and may take action if they catch you torrenting copyrighted files. You should stick to only public tracker servers and research their reputation and safety rating before starting any downloads. The primary reason why earlier P2P services like Napster and Limewire ultimately failed is due to copyright restrictions and legal issues.
Many of the files being shared on those platforms were songs and videos that had been extracted from CDs or other sources. By sharing the files online, users were circumventing copyright laws and gaining access to the media without paying for it. Piracy is, of course, still an issue with the torrenting community. A large portion of BitTorrent traffic is based around music, movies, and television shows.
When you are trying to determine whether your torrenting activity is considered legal or not, you simply need to look at what types of files you are pulling as downloads.
But if you are actively downloading content that is protected under copyright law, then you have entered a gray area. Canada is generally considered to have a very lenient policy when it comes to dealing with internet piracy. Current legislation only requires that an ISP notifies the customer that an illegal download has been detected from their IP address.
No fine or jail time can be associated with the notice. Copyright owners still have the ability to pursue legal action in Canada and other countries if they have proof that you obtained the files in an unlawful manner.
The result can be a civil suit, where you are sued for monetary damages, but not a criminal case. The architecture of BitTorrent is what makes the legality question so muddled.
As long as you keep yourself in check, you should be able to enjoy this revolutionary technology and have zero consequences. Ludovic Rembert Last Updated on January 12,
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