On 04/06/07, James Farrar james.farrar@gmail.com wrote:
On 04/06/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
The legal interpretation of having material on the internet is that you are "publishing" it each and every time to each and every person who comes along and requests the file (at least, this seems to be the dominant view at the moment) - as such, each time someone requests a copy of the file *you* make a copy of it and give it to them.
Interesting. Has RIAA not been chasing leeches as well as seeds?
I believe there is an offence of knowingly pinching material you know to be copyrighted, too :-)
[My following of and-this-constitutes-publication is mostly from the defamation end, not the copyright end, but it's all publication liability when you get down to it...]