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SWAPPING & COPYING MUSIC LIBRARIES & THE Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)

  • 12-08-2009 5:27am
    #1
    SJPRogue
    Closed Accounts Posts: 58 ✭✭


    This may be totally the wrong place for this question. If so, apologies & feel free to move it. I couldn't find anywhere else for it.

    I store all my music on an external hard drive, just short of 140 gb's of music. A friend of mine has even more, over 200 gb's & we've been talking about getting together to copy each others music. Does anybody know just how dodgy is this??

    A year or two ago I wouldn't have cared less but I read something about an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) between Canada, USA & some EU countries wherein border control/customs could soon be able to check ipods, mp3s, hd's, laptops etc for copyright infringements on softwar, music, film, etc. The article was quite short & vague but I travel a good bit & bring my HD/laptop/iPod with me most of the time. How illegal is copying someone's music collection? What if he gave me his CD collection instead? Can there really be a difference when it's digital?

    My friends 200gb's of music is calling me....


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  • #2
    sxt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,759 ✭✭✭sxt


    I would take that with a big pinch of salt .

    If customs officials were to examine your ipod or laptop , music is the last thing they are looking for .


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