y you've got a web page, and you've got a link on yourweb page to your friend Bob's web page, and he's got a link on his page to "Joe'S LeeT PiRaCY aNDWaReZ", and on that site, there is a link to a pirated copy of AutoCAD. Then Joe gets busted. Joe willalmost certainly be in trouble, Bob will likely be either questioned or considered responsible, depending onthe blatancy of the link, and YOU will likely be questioned and your page might be monitored for a time(Bilodeau). One such example is my web page. I had a link from my page (the Wierd Wide Web) toArchaic Ruins, which is a site regarding information on emulators of old video game systems. When the operatorof Archiac Ruins got sued by a video game company (I think it was Konami), I too got questioned, andhad my page had ANY questionable material on it, I would have been sued. Thankf! ully, I was too lazy to work on the page, as I had planned to put up a page that hadreally old videogames. Who said procrastination was bad? How can you prosecute someone for a crime that is undefined? Thats a questionmany people are asking. What is a copy of software? Is it a physical clone of the media it came on? Oris it the code duplicated to someplace else? If so, where else? Currently, software copying isgenerally considered a copy of the code someplace else... but thats a problem. We all know thata backup of software is a copy, but did you know that even running the software creates a copy ofit? Yes, it does. When you load a program, it goes into your computers memory, and is legallyconsidered a copy. While the copy does not stay indefinately, it does stay long enough to perform a certain task, andcan and has been looked upon as a form of software piracy, as stupid as that sounds. (Tysver "SoftwarePatents") BBS (Bulletin Board Systems, small online services run by normal people) Sysops(system operators) are legally considered responsible for all the files that are...
