In article , 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.

See also:

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_downloa...ot_upload_ an
ything._Where_in_the_DMCA_does_it_mention_this_iss ue




As long as the materials were distributed or released under agreement of
the authors or inventors, you do not need the authorization to
redistribute them to another person or make many copies as you want.
This is exempted from the DMCA notice.

Did you have the agreement of the author(s) of the movie? If not you are
violating the copyright, either directly or indirectly