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From: "Ben A L Jemmett" <bal.jemmett@ukonline.co.uk>
Subject: Re: the ultimate IF archive
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"Branko Collin" <collin@xs4all.nl> wrote in message
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> To use the example somebody else gave: if X uploads Microsoft Office
> to the archive and calls it 'a new productivity suite' and Y then
> downloads and uses the software, it is X (and Z, the archive owner)
> who is at fault, not Y.

Y is still breaking the law by using an unlicensed copy of a copyrighted
work, and the copyright holder can recover damages from Y for doing so.  The
FAST and BSA are quite active over here in helping software publishers find
people using considerable amounts of unlicensed software and getting those
people to court.

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Ben A L Jemmett.
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