Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 02:42:24 +0200 From: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mailinglist privacy: MY NAME ALL OVER GOOGLE! Message-ID: <1075392968.20050507024224@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <200505070226.37132.danny@ricin.com> References: <20050506103934.10FA34BEAD@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> <9e46c99e0505061454572a1bba@mail.gmail.com> <1647772623.20050507004959@wanadoo.fr> <200505070226.37132.danny@ricin.com>
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Danny Pansters writes: > Which shows how bad cratic souvereign counties are gettingthey're accepting US > corp law as their own. Copyright law is fairly consistent in the industrialized world. > Anyway, stuff your DMCA.. until we have a valid precedent for it I'd say stuff > it. There's already a lot of jurisprudence to draw upon. > What if it's the US DMCA against a big French software house (assuming > you have one). How would you think your gov would react? I suppose my government would either apply French copyright law if the infringement were in France, or U.S. copyright law (i.e., the DMCA) if the infringement were in the U.S. > Now go back to someone complaining about their want-on sent messages > being archived... yeah sure they would cave in. Dream on. It's surprising what courts care about sometimes. > And besides as other people have pointed out in the realm of cyberspace once > you post something willingly, it's impossible to retain it and any perceived > profit that would have been generated by it (yes, the court will ask about > this loss of profit). It's a loosing shipwreck trying to go to court for > that. You can still obtain relief in various forms. > It may just end up as what most people would expect: considered "fair > use" ... I'm not aware of any cases in which reproduction of an entire work has been held to be fair use; fair use is usually interpreted pretty narrowly. > ... and if it doesn't it's going to loose over technicalities alone, like when > you answer back quoting the original message. Were you breaking copyrights? That's not a technicality, nor is it relevant to the main question. > No judge is going to do that dance, not even in the crazy paranoid > corporate stronghold culture we live in these days. Forget it. You don't know what a judge will do until you're in court. > Still... would the OP please try to sue so that we get a nice jurisdiction > about this. Rather now than later. Be careful what you wish for. -- Anthony
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