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The Bottom Line on File Sharing at the University of Delaware |
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Violating Copyright is Illegal - Period |
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Protect Yourself: Do It Legally What Do You Think about illegal downloading? |
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But I didn't do anything! Why did I receive a notice?
If you have peer-to-peer (P2P) software loaded on your computer, you are at risk for being sued by the copyright owner. This is true even if you have never downloaded music or movies here on campus, or think you have turned off file sharing or the P2P application itself. P2P applications can be running in the background, searching your entire computer for media files to share out to the world, without you knowing. It is very difficult, if not impossible in some instances to configure P2P applications to not share your legal music or movie collection, or even the contents of your hard drive, including your personal banking and other files. Click here to read more about P2P applications that share too much. The best advice is to completely delete P2P applications from your system. If you must use P2P applications to swap content (e.g. personal photos, videos or creative works in the public domain), do so carefully so copyrighted files on your system are not shared-out to others in violation of US copyright law. Some instructions are available here, but the only recommended action is to delete P2P applications from your system. If you feel the notification of claimed infringement is in error, you have the right under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (see p. 159) to file a counter notification with the University of Delaware's designated agent for copyright infringement notification.
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