[Ecommerce] Defending their copyright with your taxes

[Michelle Childs]

Interesting question :

-Should software companies be allowed to use a
publicly funded legal system to combat piracy whilst eschewing the
technology that exists to stamp it out?

in a long article on the conviction in the UK of members of the
'DrinkorDie' group a so-called "warez" group =97 from the plural of
software =97 which operate by allegedly disseminating pirated copies of
computer software, games, movies and music on the Internet.
see link for text of article.
http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020457,39198084,00.htm

-Michelle





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Michelle Childs, Head of European Affairs.
 michelle.childs@cptech.org. www.cptech.org
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