Note that the law is medium-independent. That is, it just talks about "copyrighted works." So if you copy a few videocassettes, a few CDs, a few magazine articles, the Feds can still get you if the total value is over $1,000. And yes, of course, it's just one or two pieces of software. In my article I said three copies of Microsoft Office ($360 at local computer stores). -Declan On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Lizard wrote:
At 02:42 PM 12/17/97 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
At 12:37 -0500 12/17/97, Ray Arachelian wrote:
You have a CD player at home and use a walkwan when walking around, so you tape your CD's so you can listen to them. Wham! Instant jail time.
Yes, if you copy $1,000 worth of CDs within six months.
At rougly 15.00/CD, that is one CD every three days, more or less..not utterly inconveivable, but a little difficult.
On the other hand, it's one or two pieces of software.