On Friday 15 March 2002 08:31, Robert Myles wrote: > Your statement that "If a law isn't enforced people will not take the time > to understand it" is true and points to the true problem with copyright > violations. The problem is and always has been, a issue of people. > Technology has been nothing but an enabler, much the way automobiles are a > faster mode of transportation than walking. > > The solution to this is Training, Awareness, Proactive Auditing and > following through with Punitive Action for violations within your > organization. If you have good strong policies in place, it will not > prevent the infraction but it will provide some protection from outside > litigation and a venue for dismissal of employees who do violate those > policies. Combine these pieces together and you have the framework for > solving your part of this picture. Or move your organization away from technologies that pose such risks. Use of software where you have to have a larger and larger infrastructure just to be able to "prove" that you are in "complience" becomes self-defeating after a point. (Especially in today's economy.) As for the other issues of copyright... If you create a law or series of laws that are manipulated for the benifit of a few large concerns, then they will be viewed with contempt by everyone else and breed contempt for similar laws. Currently copyright law is an area that is being abused by large corporations. (Look at the laws Disney has pushed through just so Mickey Mouse does not go out of copyright.) Combine this with the changes to trademark law, patent law and "intelectual property" laws and you can see why people have just given up on even trying to be legal any more. Propritary software is expensive. Not just in money, but in time. It also opens your company to all sorts of risks from people who will take armed gangs into your place of business and force you to buy more if they feel that you have not bought "enough". That is a bigger crime.
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