In article <cistron.1100794375.3557.3.camel(a)firenze.zurich.ibm.com>,
Jeroen Massar <jeroen(a)unfix.org> wrote:
>The business case of about 80% of the ISP's is Pr0n & W4R3z (or what
>spelling is 'in' this year?)
>
>But.... it is not illegal to make adverts for say "Downloading the
>newest movies over a cool 8mbit DSL line". But downloading it itself is
>of course. Might be analogous to providing a busservice to the crack
>dealers mansion.
[OT]
That depends on the jurisdiction. In many parts of the world,
downloading is NOT illegal. But making copyrighted files available
for download is illegal (without the proper autorization, ofcourse).
Mike.