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OK, i am confused as to P2P's legality!

I know the actual concept of P2P is legal, but, if someone were to download, say, MS Office from it, would that be legal, or illegal?

http://www.p2punited.org/ - a website i found, but i cannot understand it!

For those who don't know, P2P stands for 'Peer To Peer'

KGB
 
downloading MS Office would be illegal as it is breach of copyright.

Downloading Linux IS legal, as it is open source.
 
Re-Opened thread now (I can see why you closed it though Chris), as long as nothing illegal is discussed this is fine. Laywers do trawl the net looking for P2P talk, so most forums shy away from this.

I understand many people are confused as to the legalities of P2P, but the safest rule is that you can't download something from it which you would otherwise pay for elsewhere (music, software, games etc...). There are plenty of legitimate uses for P2P technology, but only a few percent of this usage is actually legal now.
 
GUYS GUYS GUYS IT WASNT ME WHO CLOSED THIS THREAD! I DONT EVEN HAVE THE POWERS TO MODERATE THIS SECTION!

I KNOW that this is a VALID topic and even if i DID moderate this section, i WOULDNT have closed it - i was the one that replied FIRST to it!!!

Chris
 
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haha, sorry Chris, I thought it was because you posted last ;)

My apologies :)
 
I can check the logs, but I was just very presumptuous ;)
 
Yup, it was me! P2P talk on many forums has sidetracked so I thought I better close it. I should have posted a message.

As long as the discussion is on legal aspects of P2P its OK so go ahead.
 
I dont know how it works...but isnt it that you are using legal software too download illegal content? Thats why its defendable in a case, and why it cant be shut down, the P2P networks anyway...

What about bit-torrent though?
 
Kye said:
What about bit-torrent though?
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I knew it would come to this but allow me to explain.

Bit-Torrent itself is not illegal but it is mainly used for downloading illegal software. The person who wrote the program was at one time under watch but later it was reported that this software was being used to download legitimate software like the ones from open source and that was one of the reason's the programer could not be prosecuted. Bit Torrent mainly is used for very large file P2P transfers and that includes complete Operating Systems like Linux but it also means multimedia files which in 99% of the cases are illegal downloads.

I believe new tracking systems are there to track illegal software downloading P2P networks so anyone who does that would eventually be caught.
 
Quadophile said:
Yup, it was me! P2P talk on many forums has sidetracked so I thought I better close it. I should have posted a message.

As long as the discussion is on legal aspects of P2P its OK so go ahead.
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lol the Pink Panther strikes again!!!!

::)

!!!!!
 
how would they track a thing like that? i mean there a millions of people using it at any one time, how do they know what each one of those people is downloading? obviously ISP's know that subscribers with unusually high usage are downloading alot of something
 
obviously ISP's know that subscribers with unusually high usage are downloading alot of something
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I think you may well be shocked at what your ISP can 'see' what you're doing. :eek:

:D
 
so they make logs of what everyone that gets internet from them is doing all the time, so that means they have to go through all the logs to see whether someone is doing something illegal. that must take ages! so when they find out do they put it on file for future reference or do they just ignore it?
 
Me__2001 said:
so they make logs of what everyone that gets internet from them is doing all the time, so that means they have to go through all the logs to see whether someone is doing something illegal. that must take ages! so when they find out do they put it on file for future reference or do they just ignore it?
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'They' do not activly sit and watch what your doing ... why? ... robots can do that job in seconds. :p

If any 'personal' information is "stored" on a PC you'll find the Data Protection Act may well aid your rights.

There are, as always, exceptions to the rules. :D
 
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