Nov 26, 2007, 11:09 PM
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Declaring international amnesty for what is still, essentially, piracy is tenuous at best. In most cases, it won't help your cause.
When you share files, there are more parties involved than just yourself. The company that owns the servers on which the files have been uploaded are liable. So are the owners of the websites to which you provide links, and the companies that own their host servers. Even your ISP can be blamed (it's happened). These may be scattered over numerous continents or they may all be domestic. It doesn't matter usually, as they're in some way responsible for enabling and permitting illegal activity.
Just because a property isn't licensed in another country doesn't mean that there are no licenses anywhere at all. Somebody owns it and you're cutting into profit. You're going to piss someone, somewhere off. Most of us don't truly give a shit who's upset, but it's gotten to the point where you can't hide behind geographic borders if accused.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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