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If I send a copy of a music record by email and the NSA keeps a copy of it, can they be sued for copyright infringement ?


I had that idea a while ago. Write a short article, copyright it, and then email it to a bunch of terrorists to make sure the NSA pick it up. Because we really have two different paradigms involved here; the big copyright trade associations claim that the law is broken when you copy something, whereas the US government claims the law is broken only when/if they inspect the copied material.


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So if I download copyrighted material but never listen to it, I'm not infringing?


Obviously not, because you haven't collected it yet!




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