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Story: Defending their copyright with your taxes
Posted by: Barry Groom (Thursday 12 May 2005, 4:45 PM)
As a small software house, piracy is a major concern, and we deal with it using technology for copy protection.
While I am not a great believer in being able to apply legal enforcement of copyright, as it is usually very expensive, resulting in the legal profession gaining and all others seeing a loss. It is reassuring to note that should the need arise, the "law" can be used against individuals or organisations that deliberately set out to undermine the many years of hard work needed to produce good quality software. It is only such software that these pirates seek to copy as that is what brings (to them) the most income.
This matter should not be one of "our taxes used against copyright" but one of our rights to enfoce the law against theft of our business income, should that need be necessary, as in this case.
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