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   From: defaultuserbr@yahoo.com   
      
   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.   
      
   No, it is not. It's copyright violation.   
      
      
      
   Brian   
      
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