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Your censorship analogy is flawed, since copyright infringement is not legal in any country (im not sure, but Ethiopia might have started recognising foreign copyrights now)


Downloading movies from torrents is legal in Canada (covered by a copyright levy on data storage media), for example.


In Poland it's also completely legal if you don't distribute (seed) it. Legal for movies and music, illegal for programs/games.


Same goes here in Switzerland. We have a tax on storage media that is supposed to cover that use case.


In many countries or at least Mexico, copying or linking to copyrighted material != copyright infringement , copying + profit does.


>since copyright infringement is not legal in any country //

Last time I looked there were still a few countries that weren't signatories to international copyright laws, PNG I think was one? Maybe Nauru, Tuvalu, Vatican City?

http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/summary.jsp gives details of those places that aren't party to _international_ IP treaties. Note Vatican City is in that list as "Holy See" and is a signatory to a few IP treaties.


Linking is not considered copyright infringement in most of Europe.

Your analogy has no legs.


I'm curious if you have a better analogy?




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