calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA
| reply to Tomek
Re: Bad way
He's definitely playing with fire, but whether or not he's in contempt may be a different question.
It would appear the paragraph 3(b) of the settlement would control, and since he's not "selling" software, the question may well turn on whether he's [in the words of the settlement, more or less] knowingly facilitating the knowingly unlawful infringement of RIAA members' copyrights, and that could be more difficult to prove.
There's a difference between saying you can't use a technology for something, and saying you can't tell anyone about it. Patent law does this all the time, and if you're going to outlaw even discussion or demonstration of search technology based on copyright law, you have an awful lot of prior VCR and photocopy machine case law to overturn first.
Calvoiper
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