Subj : Re: about to blow a gaske
To   : Angus Mcleod
From : Finnigann
Date : Sun May 29 2005 01:24 am

-=> With interpidation and the MAGIC of QWK Mail Angus Mcleod wrote to Deuce
=-

 AM>   Re: Re: about to blow a gaske
 AM>   By: Deuce to Grymmjack on Sat May 28 2005 17:15:00

 > Think of it this way... you buy a computer with Windoes pre-loaded on it.
 > It turns out that that copy of Windows is not a legal copy.
 >
 > The company who installed Windows is at fault, not you.

 AM> But you are still using an illegal copy of the product and
 AM> subject to whatever legal action the copyright holder sees fit to
 AM> bring to bear.
                                                               
This might just be the difference in court systems but here the court
decides what the remedy will be, not the victim.

Also intentions count. Selling a known bogus property (bogus meaning you
have no rights to sell it) is held as more criminal that using something
you have no rights to use, but you were lead to beleive you did.

What would a rational person be expected to do in such a delema? is the
scale used in most cases such as this.

Would a rational person seek to verify software rights? They could, but
would they be expected to? Prolly not.

All else being equal, the company selling pirated software would face
the full force of the law.



  ³ James King       KC8UGV ³ 
  ³ Sysop  Bits-N-Bytes BBS ³ 
  ³ Coldwater, MI     49036 ³ 
http://www.synchro.net/sbbslist.html³

.... Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.
--- MultiMail/Win32 v0.45
 þ Synchronet þ Bits-N-Bytes BBS    Onehellofa BBS     bnb.dtdns.net

.