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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newsrelay.netins.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!leasion!leasion!not-for-mail From: mark@leasion.demon.co.uk (Mark Evans) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium Followup-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 30 Mar 1996 22:34:34 GMT Organization: Electronic Services Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4jkctq$1qp@leasion.demon.co.uk> References: <4j7dg2$t3t@moacs11.moacs.indiv.nl.net> <3158D764.4A7C@vfr.interceptor.com> <4jj6ig$79@leasion.demon.co.uk> <4jk1gr$ejq@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: leasion.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: leasion.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950515BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:13760 comp.os.linux.development.system:20164 comp.os.linux.x:27831 comp.os.linux.hardware:34603 comp.os.linux.setup:47621 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:327 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2825 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2606 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16158 Duncan Napier (napier@theory.chem.ubc.ca) wrote: : In article <4jj6ig$79@leasion.demon.co.uk> mark@leasion.demon.co.uk (Mark Evans) writes: : >Thumper! (thumper@vfr.interceptor.com) wrote: : >: Waldi Ravens wrote: : >: > > 1) It's illegal. : >: > : >: > Boy, have I got news for you. Unlike you believe, USA laws do not aplly : >: > to the whole universe. They only apply to the USA. But most likely you : >: > wouldn't even know that other countries exist. : >: [snip] : >: : >: The Bern act effectively says that everything is copyrighted unless expressly : >: NOT intended for copyright. (Prior laws in the US, for example, required that : >: copyrights be applied for, and then renewed at intervals). : > : >Actually so does the UK 1956 Copyright act. But the definition of what constitues : >an "original" work differs significently from the US one. : : Which raises the question: What is the penalty for an EU citizen who reverse : engineers a Canadian product (Matrox is based in Dorval, Quebec) and in doing : so, violates US law? :-) How can something entirely outside the US violate US law?