On Jan 14, 2006, at 11:25 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 10:18 AM -0600 01/14/2006, Dyna wrote:
This theft of service bull is nonsense!
If I buy a subscription to say, MacWorld, then leave it in the
break room at work for my coworkers to read after I've read it,
that's sharing, not stealing. If I buy bandwidth from the local
telco or cable company and let my neighbors have what I don't
need, that's sharing, not stealing.
Mac World is not providing you with a continuous feed of Macworld.
You get one magazine a month. When you're reading it, your co-worker,
(barring the really annoying shoulder surfer ones) can't read it at
the same time and vice versa.
It's a discrete product, not a service.
Try scanning every MacWorld as they come in and putting them up on
your web server...see how soon Ziff-Davis' lawyers come a-calling.
Granted, the telcos and cable industry with their lobbyists have
managed to persuade congress otherwise, but those laws are
unenforceable anyway- is anyone doing time in club fed for "theft
of service" with their home computer?
Typically what's carried out is civil or misdemeanor actions: pay
restitution, legal costs, perhaps a fine. They only prosecute as a
felony in egregious violations. This is the same as someone without
cable TV snaking a cable to their neighbors house, installing a
splitter, and getting cable TV for free, something the cable
companies prosecute for all the time.
Or this, you hire a maid to clean your house, then tell them to go
clean your neighbors house, too, only you're not going to pay for
that, you're already paying a monthly maid service fee. Do you really
think they'll do it?
These are exactly the same legal issues.
--
Bruce Johnson
"No matter where you go, there you are", B. Banzai
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