On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Jonathan McKeown<jonat...@scatterlings.org> wrote: > On Wednesday 26 August 2009 01:05:49 Andrew Smith wrote: >>[...]illegal downloaded pdf's[...] >> >> He sees them, even if you only look >> before buying the book as totally wrong and a criminal offence. > > s/He/Copyright law in most countries/ > > T,FTFY. HTH, HAND.
To take pedantry to whole new levels, I'm not sure copyright prevents someone *looking* at it, say if you looked over the shoulder of someone who had it on their screen. Copyright gives the author exclusive rights to distribute it. The actual act of downloading - does that constitute copying? Is the downloader or the site owner responsible for the copy? It's interesting that a certain well-known .ua site continues to distribute O'Reilly texts and I haven't read anything about O'Reilly doing anything to stop it. Paul > > Jonathan >
