Actually the people who share the music aren't distributing anything. All these people are doing is having a music collection and running kazaa; and that is not illegal. Kazaa for the most part automatically indexes your music and shares it. you shouldn't be able to sue someone who isn't breaking the law. Imagine this, you have a music collection you're slowly converting to cd, you own all of the music. You install kazaa to see what it is/someone else installs it/ or (unlikely) to chat with someone(yes kazaa has a chat feature). It automatically indexes your media and shares it. So now you're sharing your entire collection, but how are you breaking the law? By running legal software and excercising your rights to copy the material you already own for your own use, how is it your fault someone is choosing to copy your media? Is it also your fault if someone breaks into your house and copies all your music? There is no law anywhere that says i have to protect my music under lock and key, it's not my fault someone copies it. If it is, better get a security guard and some dogs, wouldn't want someone to break in and steal your music then have the record industry sue you for "distributing media".
Bottomline not knowing everything about a piece of software doesn't make you a criminal. Although that's not what the record industry would have you believe.
Not entirely correct. SCO never has to say where or what the code is to the public. They have to submit it to the courts as evidence; but they'll probably move to have it sealed from public eyes. So they could win, that's always been a chance with the current court situation. And they don't ever have to reveal publically where or what the code is.
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Actually the people who share the music aren't distributing anything. All these people are doing is having a music collection and running kazaa; and that is not illegal. Kazaa for the most part automatically indexes your music and shares it. you shouldn't be able to sue someone who isn't breaking the law. Imagine this, you have a music collection you're slowly converting to cd, you own all of the music. You install kazaa to see what it is/someone else installs it/ or (unlikely) to chat with someone(yes kazaa has a chat feature). It automatically indexes your media and shares it. So now you're sharing your entire collection, but how are you breaking the law? By running legal software and excercising your rights to copy the material you already own for your own use, how is it your fault someone is choosing to copy your media? Is it also your fault if someone breaks into your house and copies all your music? There is no law anywhere that says i have to protect my music under lock and key, it's not my fault someone copies it. If it is, better get a security guard and some dogs, wouldn't want someone to break in and steal your music then have the record industry sue you for "distributing media".
Bottomline not knowing everything about a piece of software doesn't make you a criminal. Although that's not what the record industry would have you believe.
Not entirely correct. SCO never has to say where or what the code is to the public. They have to submit it to the courts as evidence; but they'll probably move to have it sealed from public eyes. So they could win, that's always been a chance with the current court situation. And they don't ever have to reveal publically where or what the code is.