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rhiley_08j
03-19-2009, 08:31 PM
A recent post on here got me pondering. How many of you know what P2P software is? Is it illegal or not? That all depends on what you are downloading. P2P is peer to peer software. It is file sharing from one person to the other, therefore if it is copyrighted material that you are downloading than yes it is illegal, but 9 times out of 10, anything that resembles copyright embedding has been removed, so therefore the person downloading it can not be held responsible. The major issue is with people that upload material for others to download. That is why it is something that is hard to prosecute, because copyright laws, especially here in Canada do not address the subject of downloads from the internet, and it becomes very difficult to determine where the original source stems from.