> [lm@bitmover.com]
>
> > Instead, to prevent this kind of "legal theft", the only thing a person
> > found in possession of "stolen" property needs to do is to return it,
> > unless there is evidence that the possessor actually stole the property
> > in question.
>
> Yeah, right.
>
> ``I "found" these 3GB of mp3's of music and I had no idea that
> they were stolen but now that you mention it, here they are back.
> Finders keepers, right?''
>
> What were you thinking? That's obviously incorrect, I know that it is
> incorrect from both observation of recent court cases as well as direct
> personal experience.
You're both right. The thing you may be missing is - intellectual property
ain't the same as material property and the law has to (and does) take this
into account.
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