Are P2P Legal or Bootleg Movies?
When you download free on line movies, are you downloading P2P legal or bootleg movies? The answer to that question isn’t as easy to answer as you might believe, since it digs into the murky depths of copyright law, and in the USA at least the term ‘murky’ barely covers it. Let’s get one or two facts right first, so we all know where we are starting from in this discussion. P2P, peer to peer, file sharing or network software, whatever you want to call it, is not illegal. Although it is illegal to own Kazaa in Australia, the Supreme Court in the Netherlands ruled that Kazaa was not illegal because it was the way the software was used that was illegal, not the software itself. A similar judgment was given by a federal court judge in Los Angeles, who ruled that peer-to-peer firms Morpheus and Grokster were not responsible for infringements of copyright made using their software. Hence, P2P legal software can be used to download free on line movies, as long as these movies are not protecte
