[Gllug] OT, but funny

[Chris Ball]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 12:49:23PM +0000, John Southern wrote:
> Apart from being morally wrong on two counts (1)Stolen & (2)MS is just
> WRONG. 

To me, `stolen' implies that something has progressed from being
somewhere that it should be - a default place - to being somewhere else
instead, without permission of the original owner.  Copyright violation
doesn't remove the copyrighted material from the owner, so doesn't fit
my definitions of stealing and theft.

> I think a UK judge may also treat it as a bad thing. There again maybe
> FAST are wrong with all those letters.

It'd have to be a civil court judge, then.  Copyright violation isn't
a criminal matter that the police will handle - it's a matter between
the person in breach and the entity owning the copyright.

- ~C.
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