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Hi Didier: If they copy copyright material in any media beyond fair use without the permission of the owner, it is illegal. Capability does not alter culpability. Proscribing fair use is getting trickier but all that happens when a developer or company tries to stretch these definitions is that the bans get tighter and the likelihood that deep freedom of expression via the internet across venues will still exist in the coming years grows less. It is a legal chinese finger puzzle. Prosecuting them is the real problem. OTOH, last year, a competitor appropriated the content of our company's web site, transformed it, removed the sources, etc. and published it on the web. A letter from a lawyer did wonders. For providers of services that strip ads or any material which the originator attests is covered under a copyright, and states in the local originating site (does a URI attest to ownership?) that "this material in whole or any part is restricted.. blah blah), caveat vendor. Policy before code. At some point, some company will put a product on the web that violates a law in some venue and will become a test case. Ummm.... well the guys that were selling fake IDs have already lost their court case but that was a product sold on the web, not a web product. The nabsters have been bought out and are settling as the mp3.com guys did. Who are the losers: the artists as usual. It doesn't auger well for rich content for free, but even the pornographers are giving up on that one. Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Didier PH Martin [mailto:martind@n...] Didier replies: Its even worse Len. Imagine now that I have a special browser equipped with a stylesheet that can transform any XHTML document into...XHTML but this time without any double click advertising (just doing this let you remove at least 50% of the web's ads). In this case, it is perfectly legal except if the law state that the user has the obligation to read the document without any transformation. I am not a lawyer but I think it is legal to transform any content for its own consumption.
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