Shay <n@n.n> wrote:
>    B. Record a television program with a dvr and skip the commercials.

  Is that piracy? At least Finnish copyright law (which is one of the
strictest in the world, thanks to music companies) explicitly allows
recording TV programs. There's no requirement about commercials.

  Of course the irony is: If you record a TV program and lend the recording
to a friend, that's legal. If you send it through the internet to your
friend, you are breaking the law, because now you are publicly distributing
it. The end effect is exactly the same, but in one case it's ok while in
the other you are a criminal.

  It has been said that Finnish copyright law is so complicated that nobody
understands it fully, not even the people who made it.

>    D. Download an album you know you'd never buy out of morbid curiosity 
> (Chris Cornell with Timbaland)

  How about: Click on a link, which links to a youtube video containing
copyrighted music. You have no idea if the music is copyrighted or not.
Are you a criminal?

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                                                          - Warp

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