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lobochrome | 5 months ago

Really?? Which countries allow copyright infringement by individuals?

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Pooge|5 months ago

None. Because you projected your country's laws in the discussion, you failed to see that the countries that allow copyrighted material to be downloaded for personal usage do not qualify that download as "copyright infringement" in the first place.

To answer your question with the only answer I know: Switzerland.

_zoltan_|5 months ago

See above: there are a few, but it's not copyright infringement.

iiv|5 months ago

How is downloading a movie copyright infringement?

simiones|5 months ago

A download is a copy of a work. So, downloading a movie is making a copy of a work that you are not a copyright holder of - in other words, either you or the site you are downloading from are infringing on the copyright holder's exclusive right to create copies of their work. You could claim there is some fair use exemption for this case, or you can have an alternative way of authorizing copies and paying for them like Switzerland does, but there is no doubt in any legal system that downloading is the same kind of action as copying a book at a print shop.