Posted by Signal on 03/23/06 18:17

"Paul F" emitted :

>> You're missing the point: this Russian operation does not make
>> copyright laws in your country. As I said in another post, if you do
>> not live in Russia be aware that you are likely breaching copyright
>> law in your locale.
>
>With all due respect, are you sure that's true spodosaurus? Or is that just
>an assumption? Before they changed their copyright laws to correspond with
>the EU norm, Italy's copyright laws were very different from ours. You could
>still buy the resulting italian LPs here on import though, let alone bring
>them back with you if you went there.

The Italian bootlegs were and are illegal *in the UK*. You never saw
any in HMV did you?

>I think this area of the law is more complicated than you assert.



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