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

Jason Clifford jason at ukfsn.org
Fri Oct 26 08:57:15 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 20:22 +0100, Bernard Peek wrote:
> Yet another questionable simile is squatting. If I move into your house 
> and lock you out I'm not stealing anything. Neither am I stealing 
> anything. What's the crime?

Trespass and, like copyright for the most part, it is a civil matter not
a criminal one. In fact trespass is probably the nearest analogy in the
realm of law for copyright infringement albeit not a very good one.

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