

If you create a work and you still hold the copyright for that material (i.e., you have not signed over the copyright to an employer or agency), you may of course choose to share it as you wish. If a work is in the public domain, it means that the copyright on that work has expired and the work may therefore be used and shared freely. In certain situations, it is legal to download, upload or otherwise share files that you find on the Internet. So are there any files that are legal to share? Yes, under certain conditions.
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This may include MP3 files and other music files movies and other video files photographs pirated books and e-books pirated video games or software applications and TV shows, particularly shows that have aired on premium channels and are not otherwise available for free.
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In almost all cases, files that you acquire for free through a bittorrent site or a peer-to-peer file sharing network have been illegally shared, and it is illegal for you to download or upload them. And by downloading, uploading or otherwise sharing copyrighted works, you violate copyright law, which gives copyright owners the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute their work.

When you bypass iTunes, Amazon, Netflix or HBO and instead, get your music, movies and premium television shows for free through a file sharing program, you deprive artists and copyright holders of royalty payments that they would normally earn. How can you tell if a file is legal or illegal to share? The short answer is that if it's something you would normally need to pay for in a store or online, it's probably illegal to get it or distribute it for free. So for the most part, it's not the technology that's the problem it's the nature of the files themselves. After all, if you've ever accessed a spreadsheet on your office network, worked on a shared document in Google Docs, or posted your vacation photos to an online album for your friends and family to enjoy, you've engaged in file sharing.
