Downloading without sharing is illegal in some countries??? That’s ridiculous. If you visit a site that has an image, it gets downloaded to your disk in order for the browser to display it. Same for audio/video files if you play them on a website. People break law in the UK, France, Germany, US etc. for watching YouTube or visiting basically any website?
I’d think it’s obvious that downloading isn’t illegal in every case, otherwise you’d never be able to watch/listen to any media online.
A differentiation is necessarily made between authorised and unauthorised downloads, such that buying and downloading an album on iTunes is legal while torrenting that same album is not.
Music on YouTube is authorised via licensing. That’s why videos get routinely flagged for using copyrighted music without permission (and sometimes even with permission due to overzealous or malicious DMCA claims, but that’s a separate argument).
That’s actually a legal gray area in Germany. It’s unclear whether the browser cache legally counts as downloading. In any case, it’s not enforced. It’s only torrenting/uploading that gets people into trouble.
It depends on the country you reside in here’s a map visualizing where its legal and where it isn’t https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Download_legal_status.png this is however for downloading and not seeding if you bind your VPN to your torrent client you will be fine
In france you get an angry letter the first time you get caught seeding. Ask me how I know lol.
Get a vpn, I guess even a free one might be better than no one, for downloading some songs. Can be wrong though.
Downloading without sharing is illegal in some countries??? That’s ridiculous. If you visit a site that has an image, it gets downloaded to your disk in order for the browser to display it. Same for audio/video files if you play them on a website. People break law in the UK, France, Germany, US etc. for watching YouTube or visiting basically any website?
I’d think it’s obvious that downloading isn’t illegal in every case, otherwise you’d never be able to watch/listen to any media online.
A differentiation is necessarily made between authorised and unauthorised downloads, such that buying and downloading an album on iTunes is legal while torrenting that same album is not.
Music on YouTube is authorised via licensing. That’s why videos get routinely flagged for using copyrighted music without permission (and sometimes even with permission due to overzealous or malicious DMCA claims, but that’s a separate argument).
That’s actually a legal gray area in Germany. It’s unclear whether the browser cache legally counts as downloading. In any case, it’s not enforced. It’s only torrenting/uploading that gets people into trouble.
I live in a green state 😁 and using P2P since the release of GNUtella. 25 years sailing the high seas.
Hug of death, anyone got a screenshot?