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| it's not an official source but one of the Konsumentenschutz:
Handlungshilfe Musikdownloads
IMHO the OP is not quite correct on some accounts. While DRM circumvention devices are indeed illegal now, using them for personal use is not illegal (unlike in the EU). Furthermore, downloading Music remains legal (the thing that's illegal is uploading).
Furthermore, it's not true that this was not in the media. I remember reading several articles on it (IIRC in the BaZ and 20Minuten).
I sure don't like this revision of the law, but if we take a look at our neighbours or the US we're still rather well off... | |
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As mentioned in the
Handlungshilfe Musikdownloads document, on page 4 -sorry, very basic translation from Google language tools :
In practice, it is more complicated: Some exchanges are familiar settings, where you have some of the download automatically and simultaneously have already downloaded music tracks upload again. On the other hand, you can sometimes to protect two types: • Move the pieces downloaded immediately after download to a folder on your hard disk. Often, however, the upload begins during the downloads. So you move in a legal gray zone. • In a few cases, you can use the default setting of the Market Change: Specify that you would not upload. So, the upload blocked. While this is not the sense of barter exchanges. On the other hand, you are legally in the safe area. Unfortunately, this possibility of the exchange of programmers often deliberately impossible.
In other words, if you're using P2P it's legal to download pretty much anything as long as you are not uploading it during or after the download takes place, This can be set in most P2P applications.