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Re:Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline by dil8 on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @07:09PM (#8726735)
Cassettes were used to copy music in the past, are you saying that cassette manufacturers were committing a crime?
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Re:Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline by bello on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @10:52PM (#8727593)
Not really, because one can easily argue that cassettes have "substantial non-infringing use". It's a little harder to argue for that in the case of TPB.
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Re:Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline by nroets on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @11:04PM (#8727627)
Some people "copied" while others "backed up".

I only used them as storage for my ZX Spectrum !

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Re:Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline by vacri on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @05:36AM (#8728570)
If they willingly put them out there with the intent to facilitate crime, yes.
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