| Ack sorry o_o; I totally overlooked that.
"What I don't get is why you can be prosecuted for buying bootleg videos but not for CDs or digitally copied movies. Or is it possible, but harder to prove on the web?"
To be honest: I have no clue whether you can be or not. I am going to lean towards it being a possibility that you can, but since I personally don't know, I'm not going to say for certain either way. =/
Although, IMO, one could easily argue that they were unaware of what they were purchasing being a bootleg. One could claim that they were under the impression that it was a licensed version of the software that they were legally purchasing. Also, I'd imagine it would be fairly difficult to prove that someone had purchased illegal software in the first place.
I would have to do some research on this myself and ask around, because I haven't heard of any cases filed on the grounds of purchasing bootlegged material - only selling it. This doesn't mean that purchasing is legal either, though.
Unless you have the answer already? I'm curious myself... |