[Gllug] OT, but funny

[David Damerell]

On Wednesday, 12 Dec 2001, Chris Ball wrote:
>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.

Quite. The only people who steal 'intellectual property' are the music
industry. :-)

>>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.

Uh, there does exist a concept of criminal copyright violation. I've
no idea what makes a particular copyright violation criminal, though.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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