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Re: server hardware



Doron Shikmoni wrote:

> A recent USA HR legislation adopts a WIPO recommendation, in such a way
> that, for example, owning a piece of binary code will not allow you do
> decrypt it, reverse engineer it, or bypass any installed protection measures.
> (See HR 2281).
> 
> So much of "property ownership" :-(

I got Microsoft in Israel's Windows 98 brochure in the mail.  They have an
threat (in the form of an "article") about the BSA.  Tells about some aluminium
company raided by the BSA, they found 3 unlicensed copies of Autocad and various
microsoft programs which were copied illegally.  Now, not only did they have to
pay for the software, which makes sense to me, they claim that the company had
to pay a 50,000 NIS fine to the BSA!  

If you steal money from a bank, you have to pay the bank back, and pay a fine to
the government or serve jail time, but you DON'T pay a fine to the Bank-owner's
association!

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