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Crime?
---As the Australian and U.S. Supreme courts have ruled,
facilitating or encouraging the theft and or distribution of
copyright protected materials is a crime.---

Did you read the decisions? As far as I know, the US Supreme
Court said Grokster was liable for damages, but did not state
that they had committed a particular crime. It sounds like there
are charges being made in Australia, but the ZDNet article on it
was so vague it's hard to tell exactly what has been charged.
Note also that the Supreme Court didn't state that encouraging
infringement was what they were attacking, it's having a
business model that is dependent upon the active
encouragement of infringement. Which means it's irrelevant to
what a not for profit OSS group does, particularly if they don't
blatantly encourage infringement. The Supremes upheld
Betamax, so if the product has a legal, non-infringing use, it's
fine.

---You can be as "removed" as you want from the software and
as "open source" as you chose but if the software you wrote/
provide/contributed to is used to Pirate, you my friend will go to
prison like every other scumbag criminal---

Nope. Wrong. Go read the decision.
Posted by: tic swayback   Posted on: 07/15/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Wrong AGAIN Batman...  realitycheck101 | 07/15/05
Workers at Ford should be jailed!  Reverend MacFellow | 07/15/05
like you said  toxicfreak | 07/15/05
Not every criminal  Otto_Delete | 07/15/05
Crime?  tic swayback | 07/15/05
He was misled by the article.  Anton Philidor | 07/15/05
You should be ashamed  James T. Kirk | 07/15/05
Thank you for the laughs  voska | 07/15/05
RE: Crime?  richdave | 04/26/06
Sorry...  bchesmer | 07/16/05
Wrong! No law can have retroactive effects  PhilippeV | 12/23/05
Piracy Is Alive And Well In The USA  itanalyst | 07/15/05
Amen  Protector | 07/15/05
Hilary Clinton To Push GTA: San Andreas Sales Through Roof  itanalyst | 07/15/05
She thinks her husband is the only one that can have fun  Protector | 07/15/05
And yet no one is using the new Napster  tic swayback | 07/15/05
My kingdom for a preview function  tic swayback | 07/15/05
Please be clear, ZDNet.  Anton Philidor | 07/15/05
Haven't You Learned By Now ? ZDNET Is King Of FUD.  itanalyst | 07/15/05
Business model  tic swayback | 07/15/05
Good Question tic,  No_Ax_to_Grind | 07/15/05
Maybe not  Yagotta B. Kidding | 07/15/05
So If Grokster Had Released An Open-Source, Free P2P App  itanalyst | 07/15/05
That's my question  tic swayback | 07/15/05
Anger is not a legal reason...  Anton Philidor | 07/15/05
Yes, no and maybe  Real World | 07/15/05
Profiting makes you more visible  voska | 07/15/05
Keep in mind  Yagotta B. Kidding | 07/15/05

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