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On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:00:54 -0500,
Erik Funkenbusch <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:26:16 -0700, Jim Richardson wrote:
>
>>> The Skylarov incident was different. Nothing occurred on US soil. The
>>> software was written overseas.
>>
>> right, and no copies ever showed up here....
>
> Irrelevant. The author of the software has no responsibility for what
> others do with it.
>
>> So in the one example, we see a bit of IP written over there, and
>> present, over here, and in the other, a bit of IP, written over there,
>> and ... present over here.
>>
>> Yes, I see how different it is.
>
> No. The software was written over there. Period. What others do with it
> is not his responsibility, it's whoever brought it here's responsibility.
>
> In this case, Roy commited the act of copying the image from a US server,
> on US Soil. It *MIGHT* be similar if Skylarov had written the software
> remotely on a machine in the US, but that would be the only way to compare
> them.
and in the skylarov case, Dmitri dissassembled and reversed engineered
the Adobe "IP"
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