Re: Stallman Admits to Copyright Infringement
On 16-May-00, 19:25 (CDT), Mike Bilow <mikebw@colossus.bilow.com> wrote:
> Harvey comments:
>
> Subsequent to and as a result of the outcome of the LaMacchia case,
> Congress amended the criminal copyright statute so that it currently
> punishes copyright infringement, whether or not the infringer seeks or
> obtains financial gain, so long as infringement causes more than
> $5,000 in damage to the copyright holder.
So I can loan out my CDs up to about 1283 times each, making the worst
case assumption that each loanee makes a copy. (Based on a list price
of $12.99, and an assumption (aka wild-assed guess) that the copyright
holder makes %30 of that.)
Cool.
Steve
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