On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 05:52:44PM +0100, Ian Hastie wrote:
> There is a difference between getting something knowing it
> to be improperly obtained and believing it to be the property of the
> supplier. Just to follow your example, you buy a second hand disc or
> computer. When you hook it up you find a load of illegal MP3s. If what you
> say is correct you'd be guilty of theft, or at the very least copyright
> infringement.
You bet you would. Unless you could make a case that the seller sold you
the system with legal rights to that data, and that case would have to
include some plausible fee for the data, then the judge would say "there
is no free lunch son, if the deal looked too good to be true, it was and
you saying you didn't know isn't an excuse".
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