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KlvinoHRGA said:
Renegade13, my point with #4 is against individuals who make programs and distribute them as freeware that is designed to bypass protections and copy software/movies/music. They should be held responsible because a person who makes a program that rips DVD's with a commercial film on it does so for only that purpose. If a person makes a program to copy home DVD's of his cats playing and lends it to a friend who uses to pirate his movie collection wouldn't be held responsible. But if you make software thats only purpose is to pirate software and cover yourself by saying "Well, I made it for backup puposes only and distributed it so others could make their backups too" doesn't excuse guilt.
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Who decides when something is meant for backup purposes or for the purpose of breaching copyright? Who can truly know, unless someone confesses? The courts? Not a good idea. Half the judges wouldn't even know what a CD or DVD burner was, let alone the concept of cracking a game or movie. It'd be a waste of time and, more importantly, taxpayer money. After all, they have to PROVE it was INTENDED to be used to break copyright. An extremely difficult task.
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