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A lot has been said on here about streams and file-sharing and I remember a couple of threads a while ago that covered this very subject and whether it was illegal to share files over the internet. Well, according to the British judicial system, it isn't. From the facts that have been put in front of me, I can tell that "Oink" was a pretty big company and service set up to make the finding of torrents that much easier.
For me, this is a huge verdict that will only further the cause of people in the UK that use file-sharing torrents. I do it, you do it. Hell, I think we all have at some point and now it seems as though a precedent has been set up. Make no mistake that every person who is charged with file-sharing "crimes" in the UK will be looking at this court case to defend themselves. It turns out that this guy had $200,000 in his PayPal account from people donating to his website. What you and I do is probably nowhere near that figure and so legal defences will be looking at this court case to defend people from now on.
So, my question is simple. Does this verdict make the transfer of files that much more accessible and accepted. I think it does and I think that with this verdict a lot of people are now not going to worry about how much they download. I think this is a landmark case indeed.
