Digital BW, The Print

Anthony G. Atkielski wrote:

> Austin Franklin writes:
> 
> 
>>It has to be a pretty egregious (so many instances, profit from it
>>etc.) to be considered a crime, and if it isn't, it becomes a civil
>>matter, which you have to prove damages for...which in
>>%99.999999999999 of the cases are pretty much nil.
> 
> 
> In some jurisdictions, even trivial infringements can be prosecuted as
> criminal acts.  In practice, most trivial infringements are not pursued
> at all, either as civil or criminal matters, but the fact that the law
> allows one (or both) is something to consider.
> 
> I follow the Golden Rule for my own respect of copyrights: if I would
> consider an act to be a significant infringement myself, I take care not
> to so behave with respect to others. My attitude is middle-of-the-road;
> I have neither the anal-retentive zeal of an MPAA or RIAA as manifested
> in their relentless and dogged pursuit of every conceivable infringement
> (or opportunity for infringement), nor the careless disregard for the
> intellectual property rights of others often manifested by angry young
> males in cyberspace as they steal content wholesale for their own use.

Gentlemen before we dwell into US legislation and practices. I'm 
Dutch and I have translated parts of Dutch and German magazine 
articles. The magazines have no distribution beyond Europe and 
they have no English sister magazines that are distributed in 
England either. The translated "English" texts appeared in 
international, niche, mailing lists for a short time only. What 
has been done by site owners (copying the texts, putting them on 
sites for everyone to read, for longer periods, sometimes 
mentioning  the source and always without their apology) is not 
my responsibility.

In general my guess is that the magazines will be flattered that 
their tests and scopes are mentioned in the mailing lists as 
being independent, thorough and by that unique. Most likely the 
messages have increased their sales instead of decreased as it is 
nicer for a Dutchman or a German to read the original article in 
total in his mother language than getting it partly served in a 
mangled English without illustrations on a mailing list.

Shall we end the thread with the inappropriate subject name ?  It 
should have been given the name "abusing bandwidth" from the 
start. That would have covered the content better and also how 
serious it has to be taken. With that subject I wouldn't have 
contributed a single line to the thread.

Ernst