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		beza1e1 on May 12, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I get my entertainment via BitTorrent Not in Germany. Here, we make "copies for personal use", which is not illegal. Publishing (seeding) is illegal, though.

ugh on May 12, 2011 [–]

Copies for personal use don't come into play when you are, for example, using torrents. Downloading copies which obviously infringe copyrights has been made illegal in 2008 (http://www.medienrecht-urheberrecht.de/urheberrecht/101-neue...).

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