Mark Gallagher wrote:
Then we get to the copyright issue, where people say, "Sure, it's stealing, but I've looked at it myself and I believe we're going to get plenty of warning before anyone tries to sue over it, so that makes it legal." Sometimes I suspect it would be better if the "you'll see us in court" genie had never been let out of the bottle.
The copyright issue isn't as simple as that. When I am willing to push that button I would certainly not agree that it's stealing. Before I use the "plenty of warning" argument I will have made damn sure that I have at least a glimmer of a legal argument. Determining that something is copyright or that we should know it's copyright can be very difficult in many cases, and I prefer to take the benefit of reasonable doubt.
[2] Have I spelled it correctly yet?
No. It's "Sei-" rather than the more intuitive "Sie-"
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