Court In Italy Approves Downloading

[mdvaldosta]

Italy’s top criminal court has ruled that downloading music, movies and software over the Internet is not a crime if the person downloading is not making money off of it. Analysts have questioned Monday whether the ruling would have much effect on copyright laws. The court’s decision, issued earlier this month but reported over the [...]

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[sharpies]

Could have some interesting ramifications, but I doubt it will ever catch on in any of the big publishing countries... UK, USA etc.

Allan

 

[Peter]

umm lets all move to italy?? but wait does this law count for rated X downloads??? (I must know ^^)

 

[lemon]

do you sell those x rated downloads? if not, its all good.

 

[Peter]

nooooo. i keep them for myself

 

[lemon]

then, according to that court in italy, your good to go.