US ISPs become 'copyright cops' starting July 12

Ranjan Maitra maitra at iastate.edu
Sat Mar 17 18:09:12 UTC 2012


On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 12:45:46 -0500 Dave Ihnat <dihnat at dminet.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 06:24:08PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
> > what exactly let you imagine taht this has ANYTHING to do with OpenSource?
> 
> Well, playing _Advocatus Diaboli_, what if some moneyed software company
> claims Open Source software being hosted for download is violating their
> copyrights, and uses this excuse to shut down archives?

But is not the flip side more pertinent: how does one validate that
closed source software is not using s/w in the OSS domain?

Ranjan


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