Re: Archiving old magazines on website

["John Burns" <joobs@grizo.free-onlineNOJUNK.co.uk>]

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 19:48:47 GMT, Pheuque wrote:

> On 10 Mar 2004 01:19:37 +0100, "John Burns"
> <joobs@grizo.free-onlineNOJUNK.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 20:59:43 GMT, Charles Richmond wrote:
> 
> >US law isn't my thing (I'm in UK) but I've always understood it was the same in
> >this respect. Are you by any chance referring to other laws (soon to be enacted
> >in UK also) which allow criminal proceeding against those who download - if so
> >then these are not copyright laws. The proposals for the UK will mean that those
> >caught with illegal downloads (mp3s etc.) can have their bank accounts frozen
> >and assets siezed (house and contents etc.) - again related to copyright theft
> >but not a copyright law in itself. Either way it's pretty harsh if you get
> >caught.
> 
> GOOD GOD!!! ARE YOU SERIOUS!!!!

Yep, though there are those arguing against its implementation. Obviously though
how much the provisos were applied would depend on how much you had been
downloading without permission - but I'd imagine that for certain your computer
eqpt would go.