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Re: The MOTM EM Article -- a gripe!

2001-02-28 by perpetual@uswest.net

not to get in the middle of this but just cause i like to slam 
yahoo...

> Of course, Yahoo! also prohibits posting copyrighted materials 
without the
> copyright owners' permission, and this forum is a free service 
provided by
> them.

yahoo actually is one of the worst offenders when it comes to 
protection of copyright.  their auction service is a virtual clearing 
house for pirated software and any and all correspondence directed 
their way in an effort to get them to solve this problem is largely 
ignored.  i was "pirate hunter" for adaptec for about a year and when 
we discovered the software, we wrote them numerous times trying to 
get them to stop the offenders and got absolutely nothing in return. 
and in that situation, we're talking about a very obvious case of 
infringement.  it is my understanding that they've been taken to 
court by other companies for this.

bottom line: no one's getting busted here.

alex

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