Sharing something locally doesn't fall under federal copyright law. They don't have jurisdiction.

You’re making up terms like “locally” and you’re moving the goalpost on your first (apparently incorrect statement)

See 17 U.S.C. § 501 and DMCA. And define "locally" not that it matters.

Yeah right at the start it says

> who imports copies or phonorecords into the United States in violation of section 602, is an infringer of the copyright or right of the author, as the case may be.

Copying itself is infringing. OC has no clue what they’re talking about.

> Yeah right at the start it says

That's not right at the start, and what is right at the start actually is better support for your point. Is this a copy-and-paste error?

Oh yeah. Started copying at the wrong “who”

If you are copying locally you aren't importing it into the U.S.

Read the law and stop being pedantic. The phrase is "or who imports..."

The intent is clear and the penalties are clear and with a few keypresses even the most irrational among us can balance how we wish things were versus how things are.

Given an informed base you can contemplate how to affect the change we all want instead of just posting misinformation in chat rooms.