It might... I know less about international copyright laws than I do about
USA copyright laws. I do know that nations try to cooperate with each other
and that mutual pacts enforcing intellectual property rights do exist.
China recently signed on to such an agreement as part of their efforts to
become closer to other nations in trade. At some point the open copying and
selling of bootleg American software will become illegal in China. Whether
or not Malaysia is part of a similar agreement, I don't know.
Also, it might depend on where the guy who is putting this stuff on the
internet plants his keester. If he is sitting in his house down the street
in Middletown, Delaware, my guess is he is breaking the law, even though he
is storing the info off-shore.
I've said my piece and like I say, I'm not a lawyer. But I do plan to keep
on bugging my representatives.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Johnson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 1:52 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: cracking site - how do we shut it down?
>
> Does this include Malaysia where the currently discussed site is located?
> I
> attempt to fight illegal distribution of software where I can. This seems
> to
> be one that won't be won. The person who is providing the DNS is also a
> member of the crackers as well as being not within the US jurisdictional
> bounds.
>
> --Alan
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Fawcett, Mitch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 12:13 PM
> > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > Subject: RE: cracking site - how do we shut it down?
> >
> > There are big criminal fines for copyright infringement. It's a matter
> of
> > convincing the feds to make an example of just one of these
> > jokers.
> >
>
