Re: CD of all Files on Asimov

[shoppa@alph02.triumf.ca (Tim Shoppa)]

In article <5195rq$i18@crl7.crl.com>, Joe Kohn <joko@crl.com> wrote:
> >I'm going to put together a CD of all files on Asimov if anyone is
> >interested in purchasing it.
>
>Oh boy. You're asking for trouble. Big trouble. Legal trouble.
>
>Files on the Asimov site are copyrighted, and you are not the copyright
>holder. In other words, you have no right whatsoever to sell the work of
>others.
>
>It's one thing that the pirated software is available on the net. It's quite
>another thing if you sell someone else's software. The availability of a
>pirate CD is just too much.
>
>Your intentions are criminal. If you proceed, be prepared to face the
>consequences.

Following the "deep pockets" logic, the party most likely to get sued
would be the company that pressed the CD.  I can't believe that any
reputable domestic company would even dream about pressing a CD full 
of pirated software.

In the past two years in Southern California, the prosecutors have
been going full tilt against importers of foreign CD's filled with
pirated programs.  I believe that not only are there lawsuits involved,
but there's jail time too (not to mention the physical damage caused
by having the SWAT team storm your house - er, I mean distribution
center - in the middle of the night).  I'll try to look up what the penalties
involved were.

Tim. (shoppa@triumf.ca)