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dinkumthinkum on May 11, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Justin.tv: Hundreds of channels, nothing on.

One second there partner; I think you need to go back to law school on that one. It is certainly "illegal" to violate copyright law.

antiismist on May 11, 2009 [–]

Illegal usually applies to criminal law, not civil law. I do know that there are some criminal copyright violations.

My point would be just that it's not proper to say that copyright violations are illegal because most copyright violations are in the realm of property law, not criminal law.

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