nearSacramento1
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What is the name of your state? California
I read both of the articles from the question posed here in 2016 (from Business INsider and Computer-realm.net) and from what I can see, technically by the letter of the current law, only viewing streamed content is not illegal. torrenting, yes. downloading, yes. uploading, yes. streaming it for a "public performance," yes. profiting from it, yes. but just viewing it in your home, streaming it, it is currently not illegal. Is this in fact the case? My partner and I are discussing and she insists it is illegal but I say by the letter of the current law, viewing it is not. She is trying to tell me it's the same as "receiving stolen property," but while i understand the point she is making and how distasteful she finds swimming around in such a perhaps grey copyright area, it is currently technically not illegal.
I read both of the articles from the question posed here in 2016 (from Business INsider and Computer-realm.net) and from what I can see, technically by the letter of the current law, only viewing streamed content is not illegal. torrenting, yes. downloading, yes. uploading, yes. streaming it for a "public performance," yes. profiting from it, yes. but just viewing it in your home, streaming it, it is currently not illegal. Is this in fact the case? My partner and I are discussing and she insists it is illegal but I say by the letter of the current law, viewing it is not. She is trying to tell me it's the same as "receiving stolen property," but while i understand the point she is making and how distasteful she finds swimming around in such a perhaps grey copyright area, it is currently technically not illegal.