Apollon soon in kde-extragear

[Rob Kaper]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 01:15:12AM +0100, Martin Köbele wrote:
> Same with downloading copyrighted material via a p2p-program, or http, or ftp, 
> whatever. Downloading is not illegal.
<snip>
> Other topic: Uploading. That is illegal - if the offered material is 
> copyrighted. Per default, Apollon doesn't upload and doesn't turn the user's 
> pc into a searchnode.

Finally someone who understands copyright law: the publisher is in
violation. That is, *the publisher*, not someone who wrote software that
*could* be used for it. If I put Britney's CDs[1] on my website, the Apache
HTTPD team isn't liable for copyright violations.

[1] Bad example, I don't own any.

Rob
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