Re: [privacy] Think about breaking DMCA? Go Straight to jail!

[James Kehl <shykta () dione ids pl>]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:44:26 EDT, der Mouse said:
> > Prison terms?  Copyright infringement is a criminal matter now there,
> > not a civil matter between the infringer and the copyright holder?
> >
> > When did this happen?  I missed it.  DMCA?
>
> The mysterious 'They' *had* to criminalize it.  After all, software piracy is
> used to finance terrorism....
I'm remembering the XCP rootkit debacle, where software piracy was used
to fund Sony. (Or to save First4Internet the time to develop their own MP3
encoder - but applying US laws to overseas companies has always worked
before...)

And, seeing this was once funsec, anything that encourages people to
switch from Warez95 to, oh, say, Linux, is surely a good thing :)

James
(Curses! Palmyra Atoll is a US territory? Now where can I run?)
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