[Opensim-users] Announcement of inventory tool (MyInventory), mostly of interest to grid operators/grid nauts

[Michael Mitchell]

WTF?

""You keep mentioning laws in your country, but that is irrelevant and
immaterial.""
-- melanie

In all seriousness, this thread is the typical dead horse. With more than
its share of
arm chair lawyers. So how about we keep beating it, and see where it winds
up?

Can we put this thread on *MUTE* please?


On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Melanie <melanie at t-data.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 19/11/2012 22:51, Snowcrash Short wrote:
> > Theft is a criminal act punishable by law, and illegal acquisition or
> > distribution of immaterial property (typically IP) is theft, what you are
> > referring to is "breach of contract" and requires that a contract has
> been
> > entered into by both parties. If no contract has been made made - in my
> > country it must be entered into explicitly - there cannot be a "breach of
> > contract".
>
> Theft of IP occurs when you obtain copies of IP in ways not licensed
> by the creator. This is a criminal offense. Additionally, you incur
> civil liability through breach of contract, which is what the TOS
> are. In Avination, you cannot log in without accepting the TOS,
> which means you have entered into this contract and are bound by it.
>
> Therefore, downloading content from Avination will open you up to
> both criminal and civil penalties.
>
> You keep mentioning laws in your country, but that is irrelevant and
> immaterial. Most infringers are not from your country. If most
> infringers were from a single country, that country could be IP
> blocked and we'd have no more problems. Sadly, infringers are all
> over and that means that, due to statistical distribution, most
> infringers are not covered by your country's laws.
>
> Let me state this here for the record: I do not believe that anyone
> here is accusing you personally of infringing copyright. I certainly
> do not accuse you of such a thing. We are concerned, as a community,
> that your tool will remove a barrier to entry for copybotters. They
> will no longer need to learn complex toolsets. That is the risk
> we're seeing and that is why some of the posters on this thread have
> started thinking aloud about blocking technologies.
>
> I have hinted at it before people started saying it outright - isn't
> it better to have an accepted, community-supported tool than to have
> a banned tool?
>
> - Melanie
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