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Company Uses DMCA To Take Down Second-Hand Software
dreemteem writes "A judge Tuesday heard arguments in a dispute over software sales that could potentially have repercussions on the secondhand sale of virtually any copyrighted material. The suit was filed by Timothy Vernor, a seller on eBay, after Autodesk, citing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, asked eBay to remove some of its software products that Vernor had listed for sale there, and later to ban him from the site. Vernor had not illegally copied the software but was selling legitimate CDs of the products secondhand. For that reason, he argued, he was not infringing Autodesk's copyright. Autodesk countered that because it licenses the software, rather than selling it outright, a licensee does not have the right to resell its products."
You motherfuckers just can't master that "does vs do" deal, can you? Is it really THAT hard, you native English speaker?
I know, I know, you just don't realize it, do you? Handling basic grammar correctly should be the most natural, intuitive, simple thing and the fact that you would even have to think about this means that your schooling/instruction was defective. Since you have no real discipline, you don't see that as an automatic imperative to correct it by any means necessary, nor do you realize that most of the time just reading a fucking book once in a while would do wonders for your writing ability. Don't you just love American culture?