Re: [ossig] can the ossig community help to do something +ve ?

[Dinesh Nair <dinesh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 27 May 2004, Uwe Dippel wrote:

> This is exactly the kind of enforcement we might expect for the new Ops
> whatsoever: Making it a bit more difficult; getting some governmental
> organisation to legalise (using government money), bringing down the
> piracy rate to a level below the intervention threshold of WTO. And then
> business as usual.

can't disagree with you at all. :)

the moral/ethical question though remains: is piracy a criminal offence or
a civil offence ? if it is criminal, then the government should be
enforcing it. if it is civil, then the government should stay out of it,
and the bsa should bring civil cases against the offenders. on this issue,
i am vaguely unsure, as proper definition would require an analysis of the
copyright act, the penal code as well as the specific license of the
software being pirated.

Regards,                           /\_/\   "All dogs go to heaven."
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