Author: FatRakoon (79-121-141-25.xln.managedbroadband.co.uk)
Date: 12-29-2008 21:06
If I was to copy NVDI then the Behne brother, or ASH take me to court, they must prove that they have lost out on the price of that software.
If they do prove it, then I will be forced to pay for it.
If they cannot prove it, then they will have to cover the court costs for both themselves and I.
I will not have to pay any court costs as it is NOT me tryign to take them to court, I will only have to pay the price of the software.
Now, its clear thet the price of the software does not go to more than the price of the court fees.
Here we have the situation where legally, that software is now abandoned.
The law will not protect the copyright owners because the software is legally dead.
Now, the only time that this can be altered is when the code or parts of that code are still being used in other software, so for example, if ASH decided to bring out MAGIC 7 for example, and they included NVDI code into the MAGIC Kernel, then yes, while NVDI will no longer be available, the code is and therefore the code is still protected.
But it is not and therefore the law will not waste time on dead unsupported software for a dead and unsupported platfrom.
Now, how we feel and see it makes no odds. Whether its dead in our eyes or not, we have to consider what the law courts will see and its clear that as far as the courts are concerned its still abandoned software because they no longer sell it.
Its that simple.
Why did I do that so long?
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