[Air-l] "It can't be legal unless you pay for it"

[MeiWu at umac.mo]

Here are some happenings in HK in this aspect:

November 2005, the world first case, a HK man was sentenced to 3-month 
jail for illegally uploading to the internet 3 hollywood films using BT.
Late January 2006, a HK Court ruled that the privacy rule concerning 
personal data could be removed if the data sought from the internet 
service providers was "for the prevention or remedying of unlawful or 
seriously improper conduct". The ruling also said the names, identity card 
numbers and postal addresses of the 22 alleged copyright violators should 
be provided to seven record companies within 10 days for civil action. 
[Source: SCMP]

btw,any good literature on teens' online downloading behavior?
WM




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The corollary of this is, of course, "I paid for it so it must be legal" 

I'm in the early stages of looking at the use of Russian MP3 sites, using 
sense making theory to examine how users rationalise their downloading.

Marj



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