Talk:POCALOID/@comment-121.72.193.233-20130616063813/@comment-53539-20130617082841

You break the law only if you share Vocaloid files with people its basically saying.

Adept-ex is right its meant to imply for back ups.

However, by law if you have a illegal vocaloid but only use it for your personnel reasons, there is a loop-hole here.

This is why pre-targeting Pirate Bay, fans who shared their music files were targeted by law peeps wanting to bring illegal file sharing down. A few got fined too for their sharing, though the focus is now on Pirate bay and such sites, the people who were fined had a fine based on the number of people who downloaded their files via sharing, based on the licensing money distributing the music would be if sold in a shop. It ended up costing these few guys who got caught more money then they earned in a lifetime.

But as a general rule, when you download Vocaloid's illegal cousins, you yourself are not breaking the law; the person who uploaded the files, however, is. Should you reupload the files (careful, torrents are sharing files...) you then directly break the law. Also note though, this can change by country so don't take my word as gospel here, check first with your own laws. I know this is so for the UK at least as my mother has gone through the experience of having her CDs and DVDs taken - and later returned because they were for her personnel use and she didn't share them.

There are several other ways in which you can break the agreement though. Illegal vocaloid is always focused on as many neglect to consider the other ways many break the rules... In reality, its not actually the worst thing fans do to break the law when they don't bother buying the actual software. :-/