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illegal or not?

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Yes it is illegal
 
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yeah but everyone dose it including me.....
someone's at the door.....
 
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its still illegal, just like downloading the music, if you wanna watch music videos, ITMS has them free to watch as much as you want.
 
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i never thought of a music video being an illegal download but yea i guess it is...good question
-chris
 
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Under U.S. copyright law, yes it is illegal. Under most of the European Union it is also illegal to my understanding. I can not speak for elsewhere.
 
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its a bit scabby how they make you pay for it - i would jut download it for free - who's gunnu catch ya anyways? i don't see anything wrong about downloading music videos :confused:
 
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dlisle20 said:
its a bit scabby how they make you pay for it - i would jut download it for free - who's gunnu catch ya anyways? i don't see anything wrong about downloading music videos :confused:

Yours is a common opinion, that does not make it legal however. The simple fact is that the owners of the video do not want you to copy it without permission. Since quite a bit of effort and probably a not insignificant amount of money went into the making of the video I would argue that it is not unreasonable that they be given the option as to how they would like to see the video distributed.

(NOTE: There are exceptions, some videos out there are licensed for redistribution. They are just a tiny minority of the whole.)
 
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definitely illegal but growing yearly.

i partake in both legal and non-legal sharing on the web :batman:
 
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It is illegall but I don't think downloading the entire show of trl is illegal because you have all the comercials, its like having somebody tape the show for you, somebody correct me if i am long, don't have business law until next year.
 
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Well first of all, use Limewire, not Acquisition. Tried both and Limewire is much better performance altogether. It is illegal, but you have like a 1% chance of getting caught with a Mac. I mean if there isn't even a single virus that effects the Mac OS X system so far. :mac:
My friends have PCs :bomb: and they P2P all the time and they have a huge cahnce of getting caught. Any one of those litlle pop-ups/ viruses could scan your hardrive and find your illegal stuff. :alien:
 
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correct you if you are long?lol.
when did we start talking about shows? downloading or illegally obtaining a season of a tv series is illegal, and IMO far outweighs the value of a music video, the end is the same, it is illegal, don't do it. again, if you want a music video that badly, ITMS has music videos you can watch as much as you want, there's also tv stations that play nothing but musicvideos, like the MTV channels, or BET, etc.
 
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Yeah. Sorry about that. I have a bad case of P2P craze. I get carried away...

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oo i thought we were just talking about "music" in genral i misread the post
 
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Well yeah but P2P is a popular subject and sometimes people get carried away (like me).
 
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Yeah. Sorry about that. I have a bad case of P2P craze. I get carried away...
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There is no possible way that can be legal. Are you sure?
 
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That is not legal. All P2P programs are legal its just what you download that is illegal.
 
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It's all illegal!
I actually caught it originally from someone. And after that, I was a gonner.
 

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