12 Jun 06 09:09, Ward Dossche wrote to Nathan Prugh:

 WD> Nathan,

 >> I ask you to make a ruling on the arguement on Copyright whenever it
 >> is on fidonews and there was alot of arguments with several of us
 >> about some arctcles in FidoNews and Some people like Michael and
 >> others are trying to block us from posting on web or bbs files area or
 >> bulletins of past FidoNews and I pray that you will make the right
 >> Decison on this.

 WD> This is not an issue that Malcolm, or me, or you or anyone else can
 WD> make a ruling about because these matters are already chisseled in
 WD> stone all over the world but not in a uniform way.

 WD> You, and several others overthere, need to start understanding that
 WD> the world on different aspects does not apply the same law, but
 WD> different interpretations of general principles.

 WD> A lot of the completely useless discussion, which BTW I'm skipping
 WD> completely and I trust many others do as well, comes from the basic
 WD> faillure to recognise that outside of the United States things are
 WD> handled diffently.

 WD> Once that approach is adopted and you move away from the "This is how
 WD> it's being done here and y'all need to do the same" attitude then a
 WD> lot has been achieved and a lot less missunderstanding will not
 WD> occur.

 WD> And let's be fair about this, the whole discussion is not about
 WD> "copyright" but about people trying to make a mockery of
other people
 WD> based on their presumed superior language skills.
"Copyright" is just
 WD> the tool, not the goal, it could very well be any other topic.

The whole thing stems from the fact that one person, the Fidonews editor
and some of his cronies in Z2, Ward included, are allowing or have allowed
copyright material made available on thier websites, which is a violation
of the copyrights as filed under US law. A dollar gets you a donut if they
don't all use pirated software on their personal computers too.


Roy

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