Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 18:40 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
Rhetorical question: what stops me from taking somebody's copyrighted
work, stripping the copyrights or falsely claiming to have a license
to redistribute it, then selling it?
No one.
Well, that's not quite true, is it? This little microcosm of life has
its checks and balances, and certainly strives for an equilibrium.
You make a choice, as in Nick's example, to balance the risk of being
caught, being sued, being shamed, and/or being avoided by customers
against the perceived rewards.
Negative incentives are present, is the overall answer, even if they are
not immediately obvious and spelled out in excruciating detail.
Jeff
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