17 U.S.C.A. § 106 (West) Subject to sections 107 through 122, the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following:(1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords;(2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work;(3) to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;(4) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works, to perform the copyrighted work publicly;(5) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, to display the copyrighted work publicly; 即使下载中文电影也一样: Plaintiff established prima facie case of copyright infringement, supporting seizure and impoundment of alleged infringing items under Copyright Act, when plaintiff offered evidence that it owned exclusive United States distribution rights to many, if not all, of copyrighted titles of Chinese- language motion pictures and television programs seized from alleged infringers, and plaintiff claimed in its pleadings that alleged infringers offered those titles for distribution or sale in violation of plaintiff's rights. U2 Home Entertainment, Inc. v. Bowery Music City, Inc., S.D.N.Y.2003 , 2003 WL 22889738
It is not ISP who is doing that. And bait is pretty common for law enforcement. If they are not seeds, at least they will be peers, that's how they catch people.
【在 l*****2 的大作中提到】 : 17 U.S.C.A. § 106 (West) : Subject to sections 107 through 122, the owner of copyright under this title : has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following:(1) to : reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords;(2) to prepare : derivative works based upon the copyrighted work;(3) to distribute copies or : phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other : transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;(4) in the case of : literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion : pictures and other audiovisual works, to perform the copyrighted work : publicly;(5) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic