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Message: <blockquote data-quote="resistor" data-source="post: 1545336" data-attributes="member: 9142">Actually, those would be invasions of privacy too except for one important note:  the End User License Agreement.You remember all that legal mumbo-jumbo that most people just click OK to when installing a program?  Well, part of that agreement gives Microsoft/Norton/whomever the permission they need to track the software.  By clicking OK there, you've waived the ability to sue them for invading your privacy.In your case, however, there is no such agreement.  Now, whether they could successfully sue you for it is another question.  More than likely, you would sue them for copyright infringement and then they would counter-sue you for illegal invasion of privacy.  Then it would get so bogged down in legal workings that it's unlikely either of would ever get anything out of it.Also, the fact that you were sharing the file invalidates your ability to sue people for taking it from you.  The same is true, for instance, of police drug busts: they cannot prosecute someone for trying to purchase drugs if the police OFFERED to do it.  They can only prosecute them if the buyer contacted them first.In other words, they must be able to demonstrate the intent to perform the illegal transaction BEFORE they enabled it.  Since it's nearly impossible to prove whether or not people would have downloaded your PDF if you hadn't been sharing it, it would be extremely hard to convict them.</blockquote>

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