Subj : Re: About To Blow A Gaske
To   : ANGUS MCLEOD
From : ROB MCCART
Date : Tue May 31 2005 02:09 am

AM>Of course, but as I said, the victim is free to take you to court to seek
  >restitution.  If you buy a car and discover afterwards that it was stolen,
  >you don't just get to keep it.

They don't throw you in jail either though..

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

AM>Correct.  But those who were found to be using pirated software would
  >probably be required to obtain legitimate licenses for that software.

Or remove it from their system.  I've never heard of any software
company going after a single user. Those rare occasions when you
do hear about it it always involves thousands of pirated copies.
In theory they could go to court over a single copy and then nail
the person for court costs but, in the long run, they don't care
that much. Microsoft has admitted that Windows is the most stolen
software in history and, were it not for that pirating, they would
not be where they are today. More important than sales is market
saturation and if everyone is running stolen software at home
then business is more likely to Buy that software because the
people are already familiar with it and don't need to be trained.

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