What are the laws on file sharing?

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I am curious about the laws on file sharing e.g. sending music over MSN. Is is totally illegal? Are there any acceptions? Can you be arrested for it? What about borrowing cds to rip onto your computer?

And if it IS illegal, from what I know literally everyone in the country, or even world, shares files in one way or another...so isnt it odd barely anythings being done about it?
 
Basically, if the file is copyrighted, you're not allowed to distribute it to anyone. If it's not, you can distribute it to as many people as you want. Same with software...if it's copyrighted, you're not allowed to install it on more than one computer. Dunno about being arrested but you wil be fined for it if you're caught.

And the reason nothing seems to be done about it is because there is so much traffic over the net that monitoring it all would be impossible.
 
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