On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 3:56 PM, mike <[email protected]> wrote: > If I was a judge in this case my first query would be if this item is worth > so much, money, market share..etc...why did you send some kid into a bar to > leave it while he went out and took a leak in the alley? This super secret > phone from Apple wasn't taken from Apple headquarters by a team of IMF > agents, so I'd not let them prosecute like it was.
This is what it has come to in the digital age. Judgements in the of hundreds of thousands of dollars to pubescent teenagers who have downloaded music files. Ditto for having copied some Hollywood movies. As has gone the super-hyperventilating hype surrounding new digital products, hardware and software, so have gone the punishments that are meted out to those who fail to follow those legalistic gobbledegook EULA "agreements." Why can't I download a song from the internet without paying for it if I have previously purchased the record album and/or the CD that the song is on? Oops!! Have I asked an illegal question? Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
