re: Wow is Vista out?
Thursday, September 15, 2005 at 11:56 am
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by 666
(2255 messages posted)
Ray Gamgeeni wrote: Shuldnt be hard for Microsoft to track them down given their
IPs are logged when they post (...) the creators of this website could also be in
trouble for supporting piracy.
Would be extremely hard for Microsoft to take any kind of legal action based on an
IP address from the logs of a discussion forum.
First they need to get the IP address from the forum logs, then they need to get
names etc. from an ISP, and then they need to prove that the IP was actually used
to download or upload their software.
A forum post itself won't do for evidence, just like me posting a message like "I
shot JFK" won't have any legal value.
They'd have a better chance of success if they monitor the P2P networks directly.
The creators of this forum won't have any legal trouble because of what's discussed
here. Posting and hosting a message like I downloaded a copy of Vista from BitTorrent
is not illegal unless that message is accompanied by a link to the illegal content
itself (in some countries a link to e.g. a torrent file may be illegal too).
- Written in response to:
- re: Wow is Vista out? (Ray Gamgeeni: Monday, September 12, 2005 at 7:03 pm)
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