Re: 300 GB dl per month?



steeler wrote:

"Eeyore" wrote
steeler wrote:
"Eeyore" wrote
bealoid wrote:
Eeyore wrote:
bealoid wrote:
"Pete" <P...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

People easily make that up when they sell DVDs on a market!

For the sake of any TSOs reading: Any copyright violation that I
may[1] do is not part of a business, and thus is not a criminal
matter.

Why would an absence of commercial use make it any more legal ?

Don't ask me, ask the people who made the law. Copyright infringement
is "not lawful", so people infringing copyright can be sued to recover
the cost of the material, unless it's done as part of a business, when
it becomes a criminal matter.

Please note that I'm not trying to justify my actions or saying that
because it's not illegal it's okay.

If you make a pirate copy of something for sale, it's a criminal
offence regardless of whether you're doing it as a private individual or
in the
course of a trade or business.


If he is not engaged in commerce - be it as an individual or as part of
an organisation - then he is by definition not selling. Hence civil law
not
criminal.

Although I suspect you know this and that you just enjoy being the group
pedant.

Are you suggesting that a single sale makes a person a business ?


Selling a single disc would indeed be engaging in commerce and leave you
open to criminal prosecution. Now whether the CPS would actually pursue
trading on that level is another matter.

The CPS might well not but the RIAA, MPAA etc ... ?

Graham


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