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From: "Randy Little" <randyslittle@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students"
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Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 1:59 AM
Subject: Re: phree photoshop
In the UNITED STATES its FELONY infringement if you want to be technical.
You by saying it ok in the US would be as legally liable for the act by
promoting the act.
did you hear about the .. oh here i is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement
"Article 61 of the 1994 Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual
Property Rights (TRIPs) requires criminal procedures and penalties in cases
of "willful trademark counterfeiting or copyright piracy on a commercial
scale."[5] Piracy traditionally refers to acts of copyright infringement
intentionally committed for financial gain, though more recently, copyright
holders have described online copyright infringement, particularly in
relation to peer-to-peer file sharing networks, as "piracy."[3]"
*described*
Copyright holders frequently refer to copyright infringement as theft. In
copyright law, infringement does not refer to theft of physical objects that
take away the owner's possession, but an instance where a person exercises
one of the exclusive rights of the copyright holder without
authorization.[6] Courts have distinguished between copyright infringement
and theft holding, for instance, in the United States Supreme Court case
Dowling v. United States (1985), that bootleg phonorecords did not
constitute stolen property and that "interference with copyright does not
easily equate with theft, conversion, or fraud.
*refer*
opyright holders have started to demand through the ACTA trade agreement
that states act to defend copyright holders' rights and enforce copyright
law through active policing of copyright infringement.[8] It has also been
demanded that states provide criminal sanctions for all types of copyright
infringement and pursue copyright infringement through administrative
procedures, rather than the judicial due process required by TRIPs
*demand*
I still haven't advocated breaching copyright, Adobe have stated in their
EULA how the software they offer is to be used.
Unlike FACT who a trawl through the WHOIS domain registry revealed the
anti-piracy group is now the proud owner of a number of file-sharing related
domains. Even more laughable was the occasion when an anti-piracy group
obtained ISP information and sought a prosecution against a company only to
discover the company they sought to prosecute were employed *by them* - and
they were the major source uploading pirate copies of material! Yes, in
attempting to honeypot the P2P they were the ones providing the torrents
that people were downloading.
can we say 'entrapment'
but this is all by the by, Adobe have all their CS2 software up, they have
provided serial numbers, they are clearly aware people are downloading it.
