13 Jun 06 06:53, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Roy Witt:

 MvdV> Hello Roy.

 MvdV> 12 Jun 06 13:18, you wrote to Nathan Prugh:

 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
 WD>>> people based on their presumed superior language skills.
 WD>>> "Copyright" is just the tool, not the goal, it
could very well be
 WD>>> any other topic.

 RW>> The whole thing stems from the fact that one person, the Fidonews
 RW>> editor and some of his cronies in Z2, Ward included, are allowing or
 RW>> have allowed copyright material made available on thier websites,
 RW>> which is a violation of the copyrights as filed under US law.

 MvdV> They are not US citizens and they do not reside in the US. Hence
 MvdV> they are not subject to US law.

That isn't what this past weeks actions by the Svedish police seem to
indicate.

 MvdV> So we are back to attempting to impose US laws and US moral values
 MvdV> on others.

You have nobody to blame for that but your own government(s); those who've
signed treaties with the US government that enforce US copyright law.

 RW>> A dollar gets you a donut if they don't all use pirated software on
 RW>> their personal computers too.

 MvdV> Which - if it were true, which it is not - is still none of your
 MvdV> business.

I make it my business, and have for at least 25 years now. BTW, Microsoft
has just implemented a facist method of finding out these things by
opening a website where one can report such things to them. They'll even
go after unlicensed Windows 95/98 users, even though they don't support
that OS anymore. I think the nearest reporting station to you is located
in Germany.


Roy
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