Why is it allowed to upload commercial companies practise exams?

[cara.mel]

Ok I have gotten my answer You're fully aware of what you are doing, that's all I wanted to see



By the way, if I wanted attention there would be much better ways to go about it (ie, receiving positive attention by spreading the love and patting everyone on the back and having two sides of me, vs receiving negative attention like I am doing now)

[ninwa]

The fact remains that you could have easily messaged him privately about this, but chose to take it to the public forum level.

[brendan]

There may be many reasons for asking on the forum rather than through private messages such as:
Maybe it's an answer that other people would like to know as well.
Publicly asking also provides an additional incentive to enwiabe to provide a relevant answer, as not answering can raise eyebrows amongst other members.

suggests nothing more than a petty personal vendetta.

I think it suggests more about you and how you view yourself that you will interpret such questions as a "personal vendetta".

[excal]

As for why enwiabe doesn't worry about the legal side of it for his own sake, does he even have any legal stake in this? Or is only the uploader liable?

The user takes full libaility - in the legal disclaimer when you sign up, it is mentioned several times that VN takes no responsibility and is not liable for anything its members post.

That's currently quite shaky at the moment - given our recent changes to the Copyright Act (Digital Amendment - to line up with the US DMCA for the FTA) that actually puts a responsibility on content providers to moderate their user-generated content. Similar to the 'we don't do anything until C&D'ed' as is in America - the 'safe harbour' provisions.

I don't know the act well enough to know exactly, though.

[ninwa]

Excal, do you know which section of the Act deals with this specifically?

[Mao]

the fact of the matter is: why does this thread even exist?

someone other than OP: say "aye" if you would like to see these exams taken down.

I seriously cannot imagine anyone complaining, and if you are complaining, you are an asswipe.

[Toothpaste]

I like free stuff.

No matter how illegal it may be.

[bucket]

the fact of the matter is: why does this thread even exist?

someone other than OP: say "aye" if you would like to see these exams taken down.

I seriously cannot imagine anyone complaining, and if you are complaining, you are an asswipe.

Well said!!!

Ok I have gotten my answer You're fully aware of what you are doing, that's all I wanted to see

I thought you just wanted to know why it was allowed, not whether or not he "knew what he was doing". Since you've stated that this was really your goal I can only wonder why... are you trying to get him into trouble or something??
If not, I don't know why the fuck you'd care.

[ninwa]

someone other than OP: say "aye" if you would like to see these exams taken down.

aye

JK!!!!

please don't call me an asswipe

[Mao]

I like free stuff.

No matter how illegal it may be.

it is embedded in the asian race

* Mao proceeds to upload moar exams

[Toothpaste]

I like free stuff.

No matter how illegal it may be.

it is embedded in the asian race

* Mao proceeds to upload moar exams

Quoted for truth.

The internet is too serious sometimes.

By the way, I see a looming 3 digit number for MAT1085.

[Damo17]

I'm all for posting exams up on here. To some people it is the only way they can get them where their school does not give them any or very many. The prices are outrageous, eg 320 for 2 exams. Not many people can afford this so file sharing is imperative for some people to get practice exams.

The people on here against this are most likely people from private or wealthy schools to which they get dozens of them given to them from school. For many people, including me who don't come from such good schools or such resourceful ones need file sharing exams to maximise our scores.

To all those people who oppose this view, I have one question for you all. How did you get practice exams when you were at school?

[Collin Li]

I am undecided about intellectual property rights, but if you are the owner of a website, I'd understand why you'd try not to break the law, even if you disagree with it.

As for everyone doing it with MP3s and etc. - what can I say? It pays to be a rational criminal (if the benefits exceed the very low costs)

[Toothpaste]

Innocent until proven guilty, I guess.

[cara.mel]

the fact of the matter is: why does this thread even exist?

someone other than OP: say "aye" if you would like to see these exams taken down.

I seriously cannot imagine anyone complaining, and if you are complaining, you are an asswipe.

Mao: Read the last sentence of my original post.

Brendan explained why this thread is here better than I ever could, my opinion is that.

And I'm not an asswipe Im an ass-pie tyvm, get your facts right