Submitted by NAB in COMPLETEANARCHY
For the most part, It is actually only a civil offence, so the only way you could ever be prosecuted would be if the company your pirated from went through the effort to personally sue you, some random likely poor anarchist.
It only becomes a crime when you distribute IP.
I would suggest telling this to people you know to encorage piracy, and an end to intilectial property. Just dont be caught giving them the link to any actual content ;)
AgitatedStatesOfAmazement wrote
Worth noting that many p2p protocols (most notably BitTorrent) distribute data to other peers automatically whenever you download something, meaning you could be "guilty" of this "crime" without any knowledge or intent to "commit" it.