Hi Neil,
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 11:37, Neil Thompson wrote:
We really don't need rabid fanatical so-called freedom advocates
making life
difficult for newbies or for people providing a resource (for free) which is useful
to many people.
We also don't need to make life difficult for people (like actually
going to jail) because they don't have a licensed copy of Sun's JDK or
Adobe Acrobat, simply because they got it from a friend instead of the
official distributors, even though it's gratis.
Yes, this is not a paranoid vision, there's an EU directive proposal
aiming to turn copyright infringement a public crime, I can give you the
pointers for that, a starter could be a version of the proposal:
http://www.europarl.eu.int/meetdocs/committees/juri/20031104/511548EN.pdf
Rui
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