Posted by someone here on 01/19/52 11:43

"Dave" <emailmeat.pants@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 12:30:40 GMT, Lordy.UK <spam@recycle.bin> wrote:
>
> >The site is legal, the actions of it's foreign customers are not.
>
> So why have the BPI not tried to prosecute any UK users of this site
> when they have actively gone after P2P users??

Because AFAIK in the UK.
It is illegal to UPLOAD copyright material, without the appropriate
licence/s.

There has been no case in law to make download illegal, because this would
interfere
with the whole streaming audio/video thing which the corporates are trying
to move into.

P2P users are prosecuted for the upload part of their file sharing.
Also prosecuted for 'having available for upload' ie stored on a hard drive.

No one AFAIK has been successfully prosecuted for 'merely' having a
collection of illegal MP3's.

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