| From: | Neil Bothwick |
| Date: | 2 Apr 2001 at 09:15:51 |
| Subject: | Re: Pirate Sites (Was T - 11 Days.) |
Mike O'Hara said,
> Hi Neil, on 28-Mar-01 14:18:33 you wrote:
>>> What is the different between back2roots, and say Ninja's AGA World (now
>>> shut down...)? back2roots don't upload a game until they get permission,
>>> Ninja removed any game from his site that a company asked him too.
>>The difference between asking to borrow your car and stealing but
>>returning it if you complain.
> Car analogies never work.
They only fail to work when you disagree with them :)
> Somebody can download a piece of software, and the
> original still exists. That's not true if somebody borrow's my car.
It is if they replace the fuel used and bring the car back after using
it. There is absolutely no difference between borrowing it and stealing
it in that case, except your permission wasn't asked. That is the key
point, it belongs to someone and you don't take it without their
permission.
>>> If people don't ask for their stuff to be removed from a site, maybe they
>>> aren't too bothered about it after all?
>>Or maybe they don't know it's there.
> Sure. But if they had any interest in it, it wouldn't be hard to find it...
That's not their job. A software author's task is to write software, not
police the Internet. Your argument is like saying it's not the crime
that's wrong, but getting caught.
Of course it's often true that the software has been abandoned, but you
can't assume that and it won't help you if you get sued.
Neil
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