What on earth does where someone lives have to do with this?
If someone lives in a country where multimedia trading is NOT ILLEGAL, then it is LEGAL for him or her.
Does the fact that one country may not enforce another country's copyright laws make it all right?
Yes, it does.
In the USA, handguns are legalized. In Russia, they are not. Even if I think that an armed population is "not all right", I won't call you a criminal because you have different laws. I won't judge a man in the Netherlands for buying/selling drugs legally, for the same reason.
That's the difference between us.
To say legal/illegal is nonsense is stating your opinion. It is your choice to ignore copyright infringement laws/network & provider AUP/trojan potential. Here, it is our policy to not aid someone in downloading movies/music/software for all the reasons stated elsewhere on this thread.
What if I have videos of my sister's wedding ceremony, and would like to trade some? In that case, do I really need your careful censorship? Or did I ask anyone to protect me from trojans?
If you choose to help someone in your channel to download/upload files in violation of laws, and in spite of Undernet's AUP that says "The Undernet IRC Network is under no circumstances to be used for illegal activities", again...thats your choice.
Again, fileserving is a built-in technical feature of mIRC, and it has nothing to do with legal issues. The guy in question said nothing about illegal activities, he simply asked for help in downloading video files off mIRC. And got a whole load of moralistic comments.
If someone asks me to teach him to chop trees, I won't start a long Jesuistic discussion about "don't kill". I could simply help him, leaving him responsible for his own actions.
Please respect our policies as we would yours.
I can respect policies provided they are consistent and not hypocritical.
In the second comment, The_Game gives DIRECT ADVICE to "search in Kazaa, Morpheus, etc.", which are well-known networks for (illegal?) filesharing. And what is your response, ParaBrat?
"Well said".
Later, someone gives a remark that no "illegal" file trading has been mentioned, yet codemastr easily compares the original question with an invitation to rob a bank (???).
As long as mIRC supports the /fserve and /dcc commands, it supports file sharing, and any words regarding its "intended use" remain irrelevant.
