Re: New criminal offences?: patent infringement, writing filesharing software, inciting to violate intellectual property
Bob <bob_j_hayes-/[email protected]>
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Matthew Toseland <toad@...> writes: > > Okay, d'oh: Patent infringement won't be a criminal offence, unless it's > intentional (as well as being on a commercial scale). But still it's > pretty alarming. Rather late to the discussion, but gmane has screwed up so it looks new again :) Also I just saw this interesting comment on groklaw (huge URL multi-lined for gmane's unforgiving filter) : http://www.groklaw.net/comment.php?mode=display&sid=20050801162431352 &title=Don%27t%20Panic%2CPJ&type=article&order=&hideanonymous=0 &pid=345425#c345519 i.e, surely copyright infringement "on a commercial scale" also covers the flagrant knowing infringement of GPL'd code by the likes of CherryOS (http://www.ht-technology.com/cherryos-pearpc/cherryos-pearpc.html), various Mplayer ripoffs (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/03/146209&tid=), the many BusyBox infringers (http://www.busybox.net/shame.html) and so on. It's still a bad, poorly thought through directive that should be opposed (in the unlikely event we get any say), but it would be an amusing side effect if it caused scum like this to be raided, convicted as common criminals and sent to prison ... Bob _______________________________________________ chat mailing list [email protected] Archived: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.general Unsubscribe at http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chat Or mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe