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At 21:20 1/1/96, sameer wrote:
Prosecution followed by conviction is what will happen to the owner of the computer on which the OS was running. It's hard to jail a corporation.
Pretty hard. That's why the corporate officers will be jailed instead. Not that this would be necessary to stop the corporation from operating. The authorities can just confiscating all the equipment and thereby put the corporation out of business. Saves time and trial costs. They just haul off the computers and declare that they are now property of the government.
Good way to get the latest and greatest technology without paying for it, too. I wonder how many of those Mercedes and BMWs are sitting around in impound lots ad how many of them are being driven around by DEA bigwigs? Didn't they used to do this sort of thing 200+ years ago - convict someone of a minor crime, then seize all their assets? Wasn't this one of the things that prompted the US breaking away from GB? Seems like history is full of stuff like this. Sad case of 'those who fail to learn from history are destined to repeat it.' - -- Ed Carp, N7EKG Ed.Carp@linux.org, ecarp@netcom.com 214/993-3935 voicemail/digital pager 800/558-3408 SkyPager Finger ecarp@netcom.com for PGP 2.5 public key an88744@anon.penet.fi "Past the wounds of childhood, past the fallen dreams and the broken families, through the hurt and the loss and the agony only the night ever hears, is a waiting soul. Patient, permanent, abundant, it opens its infinite heart and asks only one thing of you ... 'Remember who it is you really are.'" -- "Losing Your Mind", Karen Alexander and Rick Boyes -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMOkzXyS9AwzY9LDxAQG0CAQAgSNBJnp0IFwCL8YfpF1n7xQUIkQsN8Mq gaHD1SBPvVUvOtqQqgUK8uQVLGeN5aXVcITtt0RfSgqQKQ8twmkbKtaU9t5hwNnb seN4N3RJ3IbOKGV0nfj9u8fUGyIDuZQGX916RyPWUgDuF0iORpBpf5aEjJCEeqyq ebuU6dxaUgo= =6tCV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----