Re: Avast! Be there still pirates in these here waters?

[CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)]

On 24 Nov 1999 05:42:11 GMT, obsbedia2@aol.com (Obsbedia2) wrote:

>	It's the difference between my going into downtown New York City in the middle
>of January, throwing a brick through the window of Sax Fifth Avenue and taking
>a fur coat to keep warm, or
>
> wandering through a near-ghost town in Montana in January, walking into what
>has been a long abandoned structure, taking what was long ago cast aside, but
>still useful, and sustaining myself by putting it to use once again.  

Analogies just don't work.  You are talking about something completely
different from piracy, aka copyright infringement, here.  You are also
breaking multiple laws above (break and enter, theft, trespass).
There is also a big difference between taking something you need to
survive, where the courts might show some leniency, and pirating
software.  How is software going to keep you warm?

Also, depending on where you are, taking stuff that has been thrown
away is still against the law.  Where I live, it is illegal to take
anything out of the landfills even though all they are going to do
with it is bury it.  Go figure.

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