[garbage] RE: [trash-talk] I may be a pest pointing this out... BUT

[Frank T. Rambøl]

The laws differ from country to country, but there are now work going on to
change that.
 
Here in Norway it is at the moment legal to download mp3s and movies. It is
also legal to make copies and give them to family and close friends. What's
not legal is to share them on P2P-networks, sell copies and stuff like that.
 
The EU has this directive called InfoSoc that all countries in the EU will
have to base new laws on. This means that downloading also will be illegal.
In fact it looks like it will be illegal to copy a CD you have bought to
your own mp3-player if the CD has copy protection. At least there is a big
discussion about that here at present.
 
But for now we here in Norway can download and nobody can do much about it.
If it is right or wrong towards the artists, now that's a different tune.
 
- Frank

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From: trash-talk-bounces at tcp.com [mailto:trash-talk-bounces at tcp.com] On
Behalf Of Queen Helen fanclub
Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 9:10 PM
To: trash-talk at tcp.com
Subject: [garbage] RE: [trash-talk] I may be a pest pointing this out... BUT


The thing with downloading being legal or illegal... the law is very blurry
about that actually. I read an article recently about it quoting a law: that
downloading mp3s or any other file is not illegal as long as it's for
personal use, what is illegal is to put mp3s available for download, sharing
them. Like taping something from the tv and lending it to a friend... except
in to bigger extend. Anyway, this part of the law prevented music companies
in France to go on and sue some people who were arrested.  


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