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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."
> This comment is worded exactly as intended. Any application of funny "Fixed that for you" jokes will be most welcome.
Fixed that for you!
That's really a false trichotomy, as the AC listed 3 options. Which don't come anywhere near to being exhaustive, of course.
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I applaud your use of "may" to avoid a false dichotomy while addressing his false trichotomy.
You either write the page, copy his comment onto the existing false dichotomy page, or jump out the window. There is no other option.
Um... you forgot the biggest vestiage of authority, which is above even the people: law. The people don't over rule the constitution, otherwise we'd be living in a mob rule nightmare. Our rights are protected because the people are bound to the law. Now, if that law runs afoul of the previous law before it, such as the abolition of fair use because of the DMCA, then the DMCA is running afoul of the law, and is not binding.
Learn something new.
would that be like shoving a tube into someone's neck, but failing to pierce the throat?
who prays for Satan? Who in 18 centuries has had the humanity to pray for the 1 sinner that needed it most? ~Mark Twain
Of course, if you asked Mao Zedong he would have told you that authority comes from the barrel of a gun.
who prays for Satan? Who in 18 centuries has had the humanity to pray for the 1 sinner that needed it most? ~Mark Twain