> for years without anybody picking him > up no teh fact that he didn't actually > have publishing rights for them.
This is a fair point. I have no idea whether Bob did have the rights to half the stuff or not, but regardless of public opinion, nobody attempted to stop him to my knowledge. > marketing SAM software. If I wanted to > buy a game tomorrow I would not be able > to. Again, this is very true - whose selling rights are we protecting? It's not as if someone is going to lose sales by this, no-one knows where to get the stuff. > page, accessed only by password, and > with the passwor dbeing given out after > people have regiesterd. That way, if This strikes me as a good idea. I appreciate that I know next to nothing about copyright, and this is almost certainly an infringement, but if we have a registration-type site, at least it would be possible to keep track on who has the software. I very much doubt that the downloads would be so great that anyone would really have a problem about royalties anyway. Dave David A Fulton BSc(Hons) Dunelm MPhil in Computer Speech & Natural Language Processing Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge
