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I understand that sharing (uploading) copyrighted material is illegal. I have heard reports that the RIAA is also going to file lawsuits against people that have downloaded files.
Can someone tell me the difference between:
1. downloading music and video off the internet with publicly available software (illegal)
and
2. downloading music and video off the radio or satellite and recording it to a cassette or vhs tape, cd or dvd with publicly available hardware? (legal)
Both signals come into my house. With the later, I can search satellite listings and find the program I want, and record it.
I can only imagine that the RIAA did the same type of thing when the cassette tape was introduced.
Thanks
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