From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-03-23T02:42:14+09:00
Subject: Re: free pdf ebook

On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 02:09:26AM +0900, Phillip Gawlowski wrote:
> Tanner Burson wrote:
> >On 3/22/07, Kyle Schmitt <kyleaschmitt@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>Really?  What type of crime is it.  Completely off topic, but it's
> >>interesting.
> >
> >
> >The same kind of crime it is in the United States I imagine, civil 
> >copyright
> >infringement.  This is getting way OT, but google for essays by Lawrence
> >Lessig for a lot more information on the differences between theft and
> >copyright infringement.
> 
> 
> No, it can land you in a criminal court, additional to the civil branch 
> of the justice system.
> 
> (Yes, our RIAA and MPAA equivalents have gone crazy, too)

In the US, you can end up in criminal court for activities related to
infringement, but not for the infringement itself.  The terms of the
DMCA, for instance, can land you in criminal court for certain types of
circumvention of so-called "security" measures that were deemed at the
time (by a bunch of technically deficient legislators) to be indivisible
from copyright infringement.

It's getting pretty thick on Capitol Hill.

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