[Gllug] Uh oh, ministers consider "anti file-sharing laws"

[John Hearns]

On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 08:30 +0000, Matthew King wrote:

> Copyright infringement *is not the same as* theft but obviously has a
> similar effect on the producer of copyright goods. You shouldn't do it
> because it is (rightly or wrongly) illegal, although there are, of
> course, cases where it is better for all involved to turn a blind eye to
> the practice (actually I would suggest that the same goes for physical
> theft too).

Given that GLLUG concerns itself with discussions of Free Software,
we should not that the GNU Copyleft is also a Copyright.
And the powers of Copyright are used to defend the rights of the authors
of GPL software.


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