Eight percent admit to downloading video illegally

Hi,

Before adding my first post I want to say that congratulations for this great forum.

Last week I came across a survey and according to that 80% of Britain, France, Germany and U.S people admit to downloading video illegally from the net. What do you think about this issue? I mean who will win governments or piracy? As you know, torrent site piratebay is a political part in Sweden and already won a seat in European Parliament Elections.

 

Hi Ceyda - it's lovely to have you join us and welcome!

Wow, 80% of the surveyed people! Wonder if all of them did it deliberately or if some asked admitted to doing it and only finding out later that it was piracy.

I say this as it can be very confusing at times when trying to decide if something is illegal or not to copy, including videos. While it wouldn't stop the problem, it may lessen it a bit if governments required sites to state clearly if downloading was piracy or not?

 

thing is that where there is a demand and a way to make money out of that demand someone will come up with a way to supply that demand.

Goverments and record companies and alike will win and will stop sites like TPB, but in return they will evolve into something else that does the same thing and the fight will go on.

the obvious answer is that under copy right rules you can use (I think) 45sec of a track before it becomes liable to copyright laws, so if I had the first 45 sec from one source and the next 45 sec from another and so on then stuck them all together has the places I sourced the 45 sec sections from broken the law?