It's now illegal to turn on your computer

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 22:00 -0700, der.hans wrote:
> Am 30. Dec, 2007 schwätzte Craig White so:
> 
> > On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 19:42 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> >> get a load of this...it's not something someone can just make up
> >>
> >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/28/AR2007122800693.html
> >>
> >> Clearly Apple, Microsoft et al. are turning us into lawbreakers
> > ----
> > OK - did a little more research...
> >
> > the filing
> > http://www.ilrweb.com/viewILRPDF.asp?filename=atlantic_howell_071207RIAASupplementalBrief
> 
> Section C. on page 15?
> 
> Does that document say that the court issued a summary judgement upholding
> Atlantic's claims?
> 
> Does that mean the court also holds that copying the work to a more useful
> medium violates copyright?
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no - it's a plaintiff's motion for summary judgment. Court has not
adjudicated.

Interestingly previous court rulings are close to making the connection
that the presence of both file sharing software and 'portable' format
copyrighted files constitute infringement.

Craig