Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Jul 2003 11:39:50 -0500 | From | Yuliy Pisetsky <> | Subject | Re: SCO offers UnixWare licenses for Linux |
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Larry McVoy wrote:
>>At least in the United States, you are not going to get away with >>claiming there is some stolen code that caused damages. >> >> >... > > >>Instead, to prevent this kind of "legal theft", the only thing a person >>found in possession of "stolen" property needs to do is to return it, >>unless there is evidence that the possessor actually stole the property >>in question. >> >> > >Yeah, right. > > ``I "found" these 3GB of mp3's of music and I had no idea that > they were stolen but now that you mention it, here they are back. > Finders keepers, right?'' > >What were you thinking? That's obviously incorrect, I know that it is >incorrect from both observation of recent court cases as well as direct >personal experience. > > A more reasonable analogy is that you download a bunch of free programs while one of them has some copy-righted music in it for sound effects. Surely you'd have the ability to remove this once you found out without penalty?
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