On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 18:40:01 -0500, "HeyBub"
wrote:

Home Guy wrote:
Malcom \"Mal\" Reynolds wrote:

When it comes to the receiving party, copyright laws are silent.

but there are laws about receiving stolen property

A copy of a movie that's sitting on my hard drive is not "property".

Look up fair use or personal use.


Look up Digital Millennium Copyright Act.


"...A federal judge has lowered a file sharing verdict to $54,000 from
$1.5 million, ruling Friday that the jury’s award “for stealing 24
songs for personal use is appalling.”

The decision by U.S. District Judge Michael Davis follows the third
trial in the Recording Industry Association of America’s lawsuit
against Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the first file sharer to take an RIAA
lawsuit to a jury trial. Under the case’s latest iteration, a
Minnesota jury dinged her in November $62,500 for each of 22 songs she
pilfered on Kazaa"

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/07/kazaa-verdict-slashed/