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dal9c@Virginia.EDU (Daniel Alejandro Lorca-Martinez) wrote:

> i know this is *WAY* off topic, but I think you may be wrong
> here.  If a store sells a gun to a fellow like Fergusson, for
> example, it is Fergusson's decision what he does with it.  He
> may hunt (which I'm personally against), put it on his wall, or
> do like he did and shoot a number of people on a subway.  Is it
> the stores fault?  No, not really, is it...Even though I'm
> personally against them selling the guns in the first place,
> but this is not exactly the forum for my political views.
> Anyhow, I hope I got my point accross.
> 


A gun is not an equivalent analogy because the "original" is being
sold, not a duplicate copy of the gun. A good analogy, for those
that seem to need one, is:

Mr. A is selling ten videotapes. He has made copies of his orignal 
set of Disney movies onto the videotapes. He advertises that the 
illegal copies of Disney's copyrighted movies are on the videotapes.

So, is it okay for Mr. A to sell these tapes? Or is he breaking
copyright laws? It is not simply okay for Mr. A to sell copies of
the Disney movies. He is not off the hook by rationalizing that it 
is the responsibility of the buyer to not watch the movies.

Advertising and selling copies of software is copyright infringement.

Karen