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If you’ve received a letter from a rightsholder or an ISP alleging copyright infringement and you believe you have done nothing wrong, contact Which? for advice and guidance.
Read here about some of the people who have been wrongly accused of illegal filesharing:
- BBC Online – Games firms ‘catching’ non-gamers
- Which? – More innocent consumers accused of file sharing
- Saga.co.uk – Protect yourself online from illegal file sharers
Comment post by ravious @ 2010-08-24 20:51:38
Every single person on this planet partially owns every piece of art that has ever been created past, present or future. Everyone contributes intellectually to the creation of these works by providing the society, culture, and history required to create any work of art. Lock a child in a dark room at birth, no interaction, no views of the outside world, no conversation, no education, then after 20 or 30 years in isolation, then he can come out and create something and be able to claim it as an original idea... If your not willing to do that.. then none of your ideas are ever truly your own.
Comment post by psychic @ 2010-08-17 00:51:54
I think all art should be free from copyrighting. Art is a reflection of life...why must we try to bottle it up and treat it as a commodity?
Comment post by JB @ 2010-08-07 22:20:37
The fools in the music industry (most prominent in the fight against piracy) seem to believe if piracy were non-existent then all those people getting the music for free would rush out and buy it, making the artists/labels more money. The reality is piracy boosts interest and the music industry benefits tremendously from piracy, more than they lose, and the same is true for many other industries affected by internet piracy.