On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:48 PM, Melanie <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > On 19/11/2012 22:51, Snowcrash Short wrote: > > Theft is a criminal act punishable by law, and illegal acquisition or > > distribution of immaterial property (typically IP) is theft, what you are > > referring to is "breach of contract" and requires that a contract has > been > > entered into by both parties. If no contract has been made made - in my > > country it must be entered into explicitly - there cannot be a "breach of > > contract". > > Theft of IP occurs when you obtain copies of IP in ways not licensed > by the creator. I believed I covered that with "illegal acquisition". > This is a criminal offense. Additionally, you incur > civil liability through breach of contract, which is what the TOS > are. In Avination, you cannot log in without accepting the TOS, > which means you have entered into this contract and are bound by it. > Avination is not the only grid out there! > > Therefore, downloading content from Avination will open you up to > both criminal and civil penalties. > > You keep mentioning laws in your country, but that is irrelevant and > immaterial. They are very relevant to me, and to users who are governed by similar law, trying to cover everything through the lowest common denominator doesn't work, and you know it! > Most infringers are not from your country. If most > infringers were from a single country, that country could be IP > blocked and we'd have no more problems. Sadly, infringers are all > over and that means that, due to statistical distribution, most > infringers are not covered by your country's laws. > > Let me state this here for the record: I do not believe that anyone > here is accusing you personally of infringing copyright. I certainly > do not accuse you of such a thing. We are concerned, as a community, > that your tool will remove a barrier to entry for copybotters. They > will no longer need to learn complex toolsets. That is the risk > we're seeing and that is why some of the posters on this thread have > started thinking aloud about blocking technologies. > > I have hinted at it before people started saying it outright - isn't > it better to have an accepted, community-supported tool than to have > a banned tool? > > - Melanie > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users >
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