Re: A2 Trade/Swap ... site ...

[pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <3969f32d.512859930@news>,
Jeff Blakeney <CUTblakeney@home.com> wrote:
 
> On 8 Jul 2000 15:00:38 +0200, pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter)
> wrote:
> 
>> Not all crimes are punished by prison -- the U.S: prisons would have
>> to be hugely expanded of everyone who had comitted any crime would have
>> to go to prison.  All the rest would then have to work as guards on these
>> prisons, if they were enough of those people....
> 
> Well, copyright infringement can be tried in criminal court in some
> places (the US for example) and the penalty is a fine and/or jail
> time.

Of course -- and large-scale piracy of commercially valuable software
will most likely land you in jail.
 
But do you REALLY think that "piracy" of obsolete software which lost
its commercial value decades ago will land you in jail?  Possibly if
the copyright owner is an individual who is very jealous about his
software and perhaps even a little lunatic, so he does all he can
(including paying expensive lawyers) to get you sentenced.  But
hardly if the copyright holder is Apple Computer, who is fully busy
making money on modern systems, and who would refuse to sell you a
copy even if you asked.
 
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