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To: Golden Eagle
it exposed two distinct lies he is always attempting to make: that copyright cases can't be criminal, and that only distributing the crack and not the copyrighted material wasn't breaking copyright law

Read #376, then retract this statement if you are honest enough. I NEVER said "copyright cases can't be criminal" and I NEVER said "distributing the crack and not the copyrighted material wasn't breaking copyright law" or anything to the effect of either statement.

Lesson #1: Some copyright infringements are criminal, most are civil. There are specific requirements that have to be met for a case of infringement to become criminal.

Lesson #2: Breaking the law doesn't necessarily make the action criminal -- it may be exposing you to civil liability instead. Copyright has always been traditionally a civil law. Criminal prosecution for certain actions in certain cases is a relatively recent addition.

377 posted on 01/10/2007 8:53:12 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat
Criminal prosecution for certain actions in certain cases is a relatively recent addition.

LOL more lies, of course. Even though this is simply an attempt to distract from his other lies, that this couldn't be a criminal case and that distributing just the crack couldn't be prosecuted under copyright law. Guy is apparently sworn to defend criminal hackers, so I'll just keep handing him more rope, sure beats him posting his lies on other threads to trick other unsuspecting posters.

379 posted on 01/10/2007 9:14:50 PM PST by Golden Eagle
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