Re: [OT] Software Piracy
Re: [OT] Software Piracy
- Subject: Re: [OT] Software Piracy
- From: Marc LAFFITTE <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 10:39:45 +0200
In a democracy, shouldn't it be the role of the justice and lawyers to
tell in fine when the law is broken and what is illegal or not ?
If I have to complain, I should go to the police or some lawyers and
tell my complain. Then the justice should tell if I am right or if the
other party is right. This how it works in a democracy.
Else, anybody could tell what is the law according to him. A developer
or the ISP has not to tell the law.
If an ISP knows about a possibly illegal action of one of his
customers, he may have to inform the police, justice or whatever.
But I don't think he should take any decision, because it should be a
decision of justice.
Else, the ISP could make any arbitrary decision. This is the same as in
any other circumstances of life in a democratic society.
Marc
On samedi, avr 10, 2004, at 09:50 Europe/Paris, Chilton Webb wrote:
Hi Mathew,
I used to run the ISP Resource Page. One of the interviews I did for
that site was with one of the FCC spokespersons regarding software
piracy and the ISP's liability. Basically, the ISPs wanted to know if
they could get in trouble for a user doing something stupid, like
pirating software (or running a warez site, or ebay fraud, etc).
The short answer was that the ISP is not at fault unless you've
notified them. Then, they are an accomplice (I believe this is the
correct term), if they willingly allow one of their users to continue
doing something illegal, and if they don't at least look into it. If
I'm not mistaken, this has already been used in court a few times.
ISPs (at least mom & pop ones) generally take these kinds of issues
very seriously.
I'd suggest to you, and to anyone else who runs into a similar
situation, to contact the ISP, and let them know about it. Most
likely, they'll take down the site and boot that customer, if you can
prove to them that the other party is doing what you're describing.
They won't let go of his business just on your word, but if you can
prove that this is really what is happening, they'll probably listen.
-Chilton
On Apr 9, 2004, at 12:24 PM, Mathew Peterson wrote:
One of my applications that I develop, iPodRip, has been copied by
another developer and this person is distributing it.
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