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Joe Berg

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I have just signed up to a music site but it wont connect as I either have a firewall on ( checked and turned off )or I dont have the administrators rights. I have opened in safe mode and changed the password etc so as far as I know I have. Can anyone suggest what I am doing wrong ?

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Joe

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Hi Nerwin

Sorry. The site is 360sharepro which used to be limewire. It tell me I am either not connected to the internet or I have the firewall on. The firewall is definately off and obviously I am connected to the net. Their support asked me if I was the administrator and if I go to safe and check it has my name as admin so I guess thats ok. I read there was a problem with the version of JAVA it was compatible with so I have uninstalled and reinstalled 6 which is the rsccommended one and still no joy.

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Joe

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1.a This is not a warez site! Links/Requests to warez and/or illegal material (e.g., cracks, serials, etc.) will not be tolerated. Discussion of circumventing WGA/activation/timebombs/license restrictions, use of keygens, or any other illegal activity, including, but not limited to, requests for help where pirated software is being used or being discussed, will also not be tolerated. You will be warned on your first offence. If you choose to continue, you will be banned without notice.

Please read the rules first.

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Hi

As far as I know it is perfectly legal. I used my credit card to pay a subscription. I believe you are in the US maybe its illegal to download music there, but in the UK it is fine. I know limewire was illegal but it was shut down and reopened as a subscription site. I promise I would not use it if not

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This thread is fine, he has not asking for a key or a way to beat activation of a application.

He also stated

As far as I know it is perfectly legal. I used my credit card to pay a subscription.

To let you guys know in Canada it totall legal to download anything.

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To let you guys know in Canada it totall legal to download anything.
The ruling said that the act of downloading the song was not illegal as it fell under the provisions of the Copyright Act, but there is still the gray area where you've made a copy of a song you do not own, thus falling under the unauthorised reproduction portions of the Act. Yes, it's legal to download anything in Canada under the portions of the Act that allow you to make backup copies of works you own the rights to, but I'd still say it is still very likely to be considered illegal in Canada to actually posses copies of copyrighted works that you do *not* own the rights to, regardless of where you acquired the copy. Remember, if the uploading of copyrighted content to a P2P network is illegal in Canada (it is) under the guise that you're not making a copy but attempting to distribute, then it would stand to reason that if put in front of a court of law, you would at least have a good chance to be found in violation of copying something you did not own that you acquired from a P2P network. In reading the ruling, it appears they allowed the downloading of songs under the provisions of the law that allow you to make backup copies of media you own the rights to, as they disagreed with removing P2P downloading in the law from all uses. I believe they didn't touch on legality of the downloaded content specifically, so as to not void larger portions of the Act. As such, I would not hold your hat on the fact that the act of downloading something from P2P is not illegal to take that to the end that having that copy you downloaded is legal - if the act of uploading it so you can download it is legal, the act of having it after downloading without owning the license to use it will probably get you in trouble if it was ever brought up in court.
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You are wrong on this issue cluberti, the supreme court ruling was quite specific about this issue.

Here read this article about the decision and that is just one article.

News Article

Here is a direct quote from the judge

Article For Quote

In a 2004 case on file-sharing, von Finckenstein ruled that "the downloading of a song for a person's private use does not constitute infringement." He cited a section of Canada's copyright law which says that copies of musical works downloaded "onto an audio recording medium for the private use of the person who makes the copy does not constitute an infringement of the copyright in the musical work, the performer's performance or the sound recording."

The Decision

Court Papers

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I've read the articles, and indeed the decision itself. The judge never really ruled on whether or not the person actually had to own a copy of the recording, he simply ruled that downloading the track did not constitute a violation of fair use rights. It seemed that he considered the download to not be infringing due to levies paid to the industry on audio medium sold in the country, but it isn't clear-cut. I did discuss this with a lawyer friend of mine from Canada, and he seemed to be of the same vague opinion that the ruling is clear in some ways, but not in others.

The issue at hand was the downloading of songs (regardless of legality from the downloader) because the Copyright Act specifically stated that the download of the track itself was illegal, regardless of whether or not the downloader had the rights to copy the file. The judge disagreed with this interpretation of the law (hence the decision), but he did not specifically rule on the interpretation that making a copy of a copyrighted work that a person did not own the rights to would be deemed legal. In fact, it's quite clear he steered very clear of making this distinction. He allowed that downloading onto an audio medium WAS legal, because the industry gets paid levies on all blanks of this medium sold (tapes, CDs, even MP3 players). However, hard drives DO NOT get levies paid from the sale, so storage on a hard disk is likely infringement, going by the letter of the ruling, and again the lawyers I talked to seemed to think that this was probably still considered infringement, because the ruling ONLY covered audio recording medium, and in Canada these are considered any device sold with a levy attached that is paid to the recording companies and industries - CDs, tapes, MP3 players, DVD players, etc - hard drives and other storage mediums are not included on this list. So, unless a court case goes to trial and the judge deems hard disks audio recording medium (and levies are thus placed on the sale of these in Canada), they're infringing devices.

I'd say downloading songs in Canada might be legal, but there's just as good a chance they might not be. You're free to do as you wish, it's a country with freedoms, but be aware it may still be deemed illegal in the future - the decision seems very less-than-final, with at least a 50/50 chance downloading from the 'net to a hard disk is illegal if you don't own the original source or rights to it.

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added final paragraph, cleaned up my spelling
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Although downloading or duplicating music may be legal in Canada, what you fail to realise is that although Section 80 of Bill C-32 certaintly may state as such, if you read sections 81 and 82 of the same bill, you'll notice that the consequences for such freedom are dire: "eligible authors, eligible performers and eligible makers have a right to receive remuneration from manufacturers and importers of blank audio recording media in respect of the reproduction for private use of [a] a musical work embodied in a sound recording; a performer's performance of a musical work embodied in a sound recording; or [c] a sound recording in which a musical work, or a performer's performance of a musical work, is embodied." - Bill C-32

In other words, because we are allowed to be promiscuous pirates we have to pay extra for anything that could ever be conceivably used to store music in any form, whether we buy it from within Canada or get it imported from outside of Canada. So anything from a blank cassette tape to a blank DVD-R will incur additional charges and possibly may eventually be extended to hard drives.

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The bottom line is this it is not illegal to download anything in Canada, regardless on on how you and some lawers feel.

Here is my experience

1:\ I recieved a letter in the summer of 2005 from my Telus my ISP provider, they said I had DL a movie illegally

2:\ I went to a lawer since I was aware of our Supreme Courts ruling about this issue in 2004.

He said in simple English it was not illegal for me to DL movies, music, software, etc.

3:\ I sent Telus a letter with what my Lawer had told me.

4:\ I have never heard back from my ISP provider or from the police, about this issue again.

Can you show me one Canadian Court ruling saying it illegal in Canada to Down Load.

Here is the Google list for this subject BMG Canada Inc. v. John Doe

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"The bottom line is this it is not illegal to download anything in Canada.."

anything, is a little broad, even for Canada. I believe those rulings would be hard to stretch over software.

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