# Being sued for downloading music

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-sued-for-downloading-music/201800>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 15, 2003, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-sued-for-downloading-music/201800 "2003-09-15T20:22:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Theom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9a28c/32.png) [@Theom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Theom)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-sued-for-downloading-music/201800/1 "2003-09-15T20:22:48Z")

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Can, or rather would, one be sued for downloading music if one is resident ouside the US?

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**Author:** ![Thylacinewas\_taken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@Thylacinewas\_taken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thylacinewas_taken)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-sued-for-downloading-music/201800/2 "2003-09-15T20:37:33Z")

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Not Canadians, I hear!😃  
We have stricter privacy laws, so if a music company went into our computer to check what we downloaded and sued us, we could countersue them because that is not legal here.

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**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-sued-for-downloading-music/201800/3 "2003-09-15T20:48:53Z")

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You can’t be sued for downloading music in the US either. It’s allowing others to download _from_ you that is getting people sued.