d Bob's web page, and he's got a link on his page to "Joe'S LeeT PiRaCY aND WaReZ", and on thatsite, there is a link to a pirated copy of AutoCAD. Then Joe gets busted. Joe will almost certainly bein trouble, Bob will likely be either questioned or considered responsible, depending on the blatancy ofthe link, and YOU will likely be questioned and your page might be monitored for a time (Bilodeau). Onesuch example is my web page. I had a link from my page (the Wierd Wide Web) to Archaic Ruins, which is asite regarding information on emulators of old video game systems. When the operator of Archiac Ruinsgot sued by a video game company (I think it was Konami), I too got questioned, and had my page had ANYquestionable 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 had really oldvideogames. Who said procrastination was bad?How can you prosecute someone for a crime that is undefined? Thats a question many people areasking. What is a copy of software? Is it a physical clone of the media it came on? Or is it thecode duplicated to someplace else? If so, where else? Currently, software copying is generallyconsidered a copy of the code someplace else... but thats a problem. We all know that a backup ofsoftware is a copy, but did you know that even running the software creates a copy of it? Yes, it does.When you load a program, it goes into your computers memory, and is legally considered a copy. While thecopy does not stay indefinately, it does stay long enough to perform a certain task, and can and has beenlooked upon as a form of software piracy, as stupid as that sounds. (Tysver "Software Patents")BBS (Bulletin Board Systems, small online services run by normal people) Sysops (systemoperators) are legally considered responsible for all the files that are available on their system(Elkin-Koren). While at first this seems like an obvious thing, aft...
