Re: [LINK] Optus@Home moves to outlaw pirates

From: Danny Yee (danny@anatomy.usyd.edu.au)
Date: Tue Aug 21 2001 - 22:30:41 EST


> 2. Optus@Home moves to outlaw pirates
> Cable & Wireless Optus is planning to abolish pirate activity on its
> broadband service, terminating customers caught in the act of downloading
> copyright material and unlicensed software.

Surely that should be "*illegally* downloading copyright material" and
"unlicensed software that it is illegal to copy without a license".
While free software is distributed under a license, it doesn't have to
*be licensed*, and there's also a fair bit of public domain material
with no license at all.

Danny.



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