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Re: when in doubt wipe it out



On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 01:54:08PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> John Hasler wrote:
> >There is no theft involved here.
> 
> Are you aware of the details of the case? How do you know that no
> theft was involved?

I believe his point was that copyright violation is not theft.

(While copyright violation may arguably prevent you from receiving profit
that would have come from a sale, it does not take anything from you
that you already possessed.)

-- 
Windows Vista must be the first OS in history to have error codes for things
like "display quality too high"
  - Peter Gutmann, "A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection"
    http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html



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