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Re: Thanks for the download

Interestingly,  saying that copying a document into RAM is intellectual property theft makes it very difficult for copyright owners to exercise due dilligence in pursuing those who violate their copyrights.  One possible effect of the passage of such a law would be forcing a large amount of copyrighted material into the public domain by virtue of their owners being unable to afford to take reasonable protetective measures in light of such volume of infringement.

It is an interesting era for intellectual property law.

 - Stephan

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Date: 3/20/96 2:17 PM
To: Stephan Bugaj
From: Pierre-Yves Bonnetain
>
> But you might be interested to know that recent court decisions have
> stated that placing something in RAM is making a copy.  And a bill is
> just coming out of committee in Congress that would strengthen copyright
> law to the point where simply browsing through the Web reading documents
> (without saving or printing them) could be considered copyright infringement.
>
   That's fine for me, as long as the legislative entities passing such bills
find a way to make people _pay_ for those so-called copies in RAM (that's the
point of copyright, huh ?).
   I propose to widden the scope of the bill to computers used for
transit of such documents. This is because access providers are richer than
the average guy, and a good case could bring millions in copyright infrigments.
   That way, we will quickly return to the good ol' times when we were working
with paper and pencil (yeah, I'm a stockholder of paper and pencil
manufacturers :-).
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