Kaskoid wrote:Unless they have radically changed the copyright laws since I was publishing, (I'm 99.9998% sure they haven't) selling PDFs is no different than selling a set of photocopies. It is stealing someone else's intellectual property, like bootlegging CDs or DVDs.The law is quite clear; third parties may not profit from reproducing other persons' intellectual property without express permission.
mbassoc2003 wrote:Now selling links is not illegal. Even if you sell links to illegally copied materials, the copyright holder would have to prove that you knew it was illegal and intended to profit by its distribution, and even then, in the UK you wouldn't be able to make that stick.
deimos3428 wrote:mbassoc2003 wrote:Now selling links is not illegal. Even if you sell links to illegally copied materials, the copyright holder would have to prove that you knew it was illegal and intended to profit by its distribution, and even then, in the UK you wouldn't be able to make that stick.All very true. (Plus, you're not the one distributing in that scenario -- the site that holds the illegal content is the distributor. You're just mentioning it. Kinda like pointing at a drug dealer, and saying "he's over there" isn't illegal.) However, in the future it may be illegal to use such links, if certain web ad companies get their way. (They don't like you going directly to content, even free content, without clicking through the entire site. You see, they want to make it illegal to avoid their ads...)As far as I've heard, no specific laws to that effect have yet been passed, fortunately.
bclarkie wrote:This is exactly what I wanted to see when I came home from work today: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... %3AIT&rd=1Check out the Q&A on my Jade Hare auction and look at my response. God am I irritated right now. I really should have blasted him, but I figured I would be better of not stooping.
Kosh Vorlontay wrote:Looks like gaunter666eBay Feedback Profile for gauntner666 is no longer a registered user. Anybody know if he actually shipped that large auction of his back in Feb(Its was like $1102). Its no longer trackable and neither left feedback.