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Slippyblade:

--- Quote from: Patent Doc on May 25, 2010, 01:35:36 pm ---By the way, copyright infringement will never result in an arrest...possibly confiscation of a computer as evidence, but the penalty is a fine...a big fine, but a fine nonetheless.

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This is a digression...

Really?  I've seen a lot, many by RIAA   ;)  Here's an example.  Another.   And another  Here's a biggie

Sure, the actual charges spin off into the nether, but no matter how you slice it they are copyright arrests.  They are folks who are mixing music with samples, uploading to torrents and file sharing or in the last one, a security professional giving a lecture.
Patent Doc:

--- Quote ---This is a digression...

Really?  I've seen a lot, many by RIAA     Here's an example.  Another.   And another  Here's a biggie

Sure, the actual charges spin off into the nether, but no matter how you slice it they are copyright arrests.  They are folks who are mixing music with samples, uploading to torrents and file sharing or in the last one, a security professional giving a lecture.
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I stand corrected.  My firm was involved in some of the early suits (not the ones you mentioned).  I guess what I should have stated that I was unware of anyone serving jail time as the punishment rather than just a big fine.  Oh well, shows you what I know...or don't :)
Slippyblade:
I have to apologize for the vehemence of my reply too.  I've always been a believer in the old adage of making the punishment fit the crime and copyright and IP is one area of law that is so blown out of proportion that it makes me scream.  It's a bit of an exposed nerve to me actually.  Ranks up there with patent law, whatever happened to the notion of a patent needing to be, "Non-obvious to an expert in the field"  These days patents are less about innovation and more about being piled into a portfolio of vague, mysteriously worded garbage used to beat each other into submission with.  I mean, come on, the Scroll Bar?  Sorry - putting the words "on a computer" on the end of an existing patent does not make it a new innovation.

Slippy
Havok:
What we're dealing with here is a complete lack of respect for the law!

Patent Doc:

--- Quote ---I have to apologize for the vehemence of my reply too.  I've always been a believer in the old adage of making the punishment fit the crime and copyright and IP is one area of law that is so blown out of proportion that it makes me scream.  It's a bit of an exposed nerve to me actually.  Ranks up there with patent law, whatever happened to the notion of a patent needing to be, "Non-obvious to an expert in the field"  These days patents are less about innovation and more about being piled into a portfolio of vague, mysteriously worded garbage used to beat each other into submission with.  I mean, come on, the Scroll Bar?  Sorry - putting the words "on a computer" on the end of an existing patent does not make it a new innovation.

Slippy
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MOVE ALONG NOTHING TO SEE HERE   :censored:.............Shhhhh my clients may be listening...or at least the competition.  How am I gonna make a profit if I actually have to start from scratch on an application? 

Seriously, though I have the same feeling some times.  Need I say...method of entertaining a cat with a laser...method of swinging a child in a swing....geeze....really?  Gives the profession a bad name.
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