18 Mar
2007
18 Mar
'07
10:01 p.m.
On 3/18/07, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
Hex Star wrote:
No problem there, I don't have any copyrighted items I've made :P
And the idea isn't to do that just to be ignorant and say "Ha ha!" to the
US
government agencies/lawyers, the idea would be to do that so that people
could upload full versions of vintage software that you once had to pay for
without having to worry about some employee coming out of the dead and suing
us...it really shouldn't be an issue with software of this age but webspace
in Russia would just make this whole copyright deal a non-issue thus meaning
we wouldn't have to censure our archives content nor deal with any
roundabout ways of distributing the archive such as requiring a free
registration
The Russian comment is that if someone here does
speak russian it would
be
possible to get Russian hosting in Russia which
would prevent us from
having
to deal with US copyright issues and thus be able to upload whatever we
want
That implies a systemic desire to avoid valid copyright. That doesn't
seem like a good idea. If you don't respect others' copyright, you
shouldn't expect anyone to respect yours.