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Re: Thanks for the downloading help!
> Making the page available by http does not implicitly wave the
> copyright....we all are just breaking the law every time we look at a
> web site.
You mean "waive". And of course as you imply, that's completely
absurd. Whether or not putting up a page for the universe to
read implicitly waives some of the rights that an owner has under
the copyright laws would have to be settled in court. I have a
hard time imagining any judge finding that it does not; I am
awfully, awfully certain (about as certain as I am that the
Sun will rise tomorrow) that when I surf to http://java.sun.com,
for instance, I am violating no laws. Does your lawyer friend
*really* believe otherwise, or are you interpreting beyond what
she said?
One thing that I've learned in my encounters with the law is
that it's nothing like programming or logic: if a bunch of
reasonable-sounding premises lead to an absurd conclusion, the
legal system will find some way to avoid having the absurd
conclusion hold...
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