On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 14:10:42 PM +0100, jdd (jdd@dodin.org) wrote:
it's just the other way round. I don't look at the content (I own it) but at the file format.
spreading pdf is perfectly legal, spreading mp3's (and probably divx) is not
but the fact is it's done, massively, by big companies. Is nobody sue them, the fordidness become pretty weak :-)
No, it's done by people through the service of those companies. This is the difference. If somebody steals a car and drives it through an highway to rob a bank, do the bank or the police go after the highway company or the car maker? See here, for example: http://picker.typepad.com/legal_infrastructure_of_b/2006/10/youtube_and_cop.... if you post on youtube something which is illegal for any reason, youtube only has to take it offline. The actual suit, when it happens, is always against who _did_ the "wrong thing". Marco -- The right way to make everybody love Free Standards and Free Software: http://digifreedom.net/node/73 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org