Unsecured wifi might be contributory negligence
Roland Perry
lists at internetpolicyagency.com
Fri Feb 17 17:41:41 GMT 2012
In article <4F3E77F4.4060501 at ernest.net>, Nicholas Bohm
<nbohm at ernest.net> writes
>> But isn't breach of copyright also straddling the criminal/civil boundary?
>
>No. Infringement is either civil or criminal, depending on the
>circumstances. In neither case does it inhabit a halfway house like an
>administrative penalty.
So if someone commits a criminal breach of copyright, the rightsholder
can't also sue for damages? They have to choose one or the other.
And then there's the International/Trans-border issues, where our
friends in the USA will have the FBI help them track down the more
serious infringers.
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Roland Perry
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