19 Mar
2007
19 Mar
'07
2:15 p.m.
Billy Pettit wrote:
I was going to avoid commenting on Hex Star chiding
the list for not
giving him all our files. But this is too much - Proposing to use a
criminal to get around copyright laws.
I hesitate to get involved in such a contentious issue, but I think
you've
misunderstood his intent. The putative guy (or gal) in Russia cannot be
a criminal: if he is then you've chosen the wrong country and need
a quick s/Russia/Elsewhere/g. The guys uploading the software are
(I assume) breaking US copyright laws. Then again the guys making
stuff available of the existing FTP sites are presumably breaking
exactly
the same laws to at least the same extent. (Presumably if they are also
hosting an archive and are within the purview of US law then they're
breaking even more US laws).
This is going too far - proposing that we deliberately
break the law
so this young fellow can get all the software he wants. Isn't it
about time to end this thread and ask Hex Star to stop harassing the
list?
If you send stuff to someone so that they can scan it and make it
available
on the net (or in any other form), are you breaking the law? I can see
why Hex Star's comments might rub you up the wrong way, but he's young
(or at least he claims he is, and his sentence structure does back him
up in his claim :-)) so I'd cut him some slack. At least he might
still be archiving stuff after we're all gone.
Antonio
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