XPost: rec.arts.tv, rec.arts.sf.tv   
   From: david@block.net   
      
   On 30 Oct 2009 18:37:53 GMT, Blanche  wrote:   
      
   >Frank Frank   wrote:   
   >>Jim Gysin wrote:   
   >   
   >[lots snipped]   
   >   
   >>If I fileshare an MGM movie, downloading a copy from John Q. Public,   
   >>that's not "thuggery and theft". That's a consensual free-market   
   >>transaction between me and John.   
   >   
   >no it is not. it's a federal crime, and it's receiving   
   >stolen goods, which is a felony.   
      
   It is a federal crime, yes.  But it isn't receiving stolen good.   
      
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