In article <i4nml3-e26.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, The Ghost In The
Machine wrote:
> AFAICT, criminal prosecution is possible if the value of the works is over
> $1,000 (retail). Civil suits have the option of recovering damages
> (including court costs and attorney's fees for *both* sides) and lost
> profits.
There's also the notion of "statutory damages". The basic idea is that it
is very hard to compute actual damages in many copyright cases, so the law
provides an alternative of letting you ask the judge to pick the damages for
each infringement, from a range given in the statute.
The big cost in this case is not monetary, but the loss of the moral high
ground. It's hard to do a creditable job of bitching about Microsoft's
stealing of other people's works when one does it themselves on their web
site.
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--Tim Smith
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