Re: Re: New criminal offences?: patent infringement, writing filesharing software, inciting to violate intellectual property

On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 09:30:40PM +0000, Bob wrote:
> 
> Yeah. Again, much reference is made to organised crime, willfull/knowing
> abetting of direct infringment and direct financial gain from encouraging it but
> it doesn't actually _say_ that these are criteria. If they are, then it sounds a
> lot like the interpretation of US law against the original Napster plus some
> "OMG TEH MAFIA!!1!" scaremongering (given that such ventures are handled
> adequately by existing law) and we have nothing to worry about given that
> Freenet project inc. doesn't support, promote or profit from such actions and
> afaik isn't organised crime :) Beyond that there's no real conclusions that can
> be drawn without a formal directive submission that explains such points.

The PDF has everything IIRC...
> 
> Bob
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