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Re:What Colour are your bits? by greendestiny on Sunday March 08, 2009 @04:56AM (#507116)
Copyright makes the act of copying something illegal. The only thing the bits might give you is evidence of copying. Trying to think about the law governing human actions only in terms of bits unsurprisingly fails.
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Re:What Colour are your bits? by eru on Sunday March 08, 2009 @05:30AM (#507131)
Isn't it the act of redistributing that's illegal?
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Re:What Colour are your bits? by swillden on Sunday March 08, 2009 @12:21PM (#507289)
No, the copying is illegal as well. It's just that copying without redistribution is typically both hard to catch and not worth the copyright holder's attention.

At least, that's how it is in US law. Details at: http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#106

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Re:What Colour are your bits? by greendestiny on Sunday March 08, 2009 @05:55AM (#507139)
Either way its what someone does, not the values of the bits that matters.
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