Re: [Patents] bsa method: Through December 31, 2004, a reward of 10% of any recovery value up to £20,000 will be paid for information which leads to successful judgment or settlement

[Alain Knaff <patent@lka.org.lu>]

On Monday 03 January 2005 10:57, PILCH Hartmut wrote:
> > > Software piracy causes widespread damage. To business... to your
> > > As you know, there are many kinds of software piracy: from using one
> > > disk to install a program on multiple computers to downloading
> > > software from the Internet.Every example is illegal and dangerous.
> >
> > Is it legal in the UK to spread such a lie as "downloading software from
> > the Internet is illegal" ?
>
> I didn't see such a statement in the BSA text.

Just for the record: Yes, there is:

  As you know, there are many kinds of software piracy: from using one
  disk to install a program on multiple computers to downloading software
  from the Internet.Every example is illegal and dangerous. 
                    ^^^^^

For me this seems to imply that every example of downloading software
from the Internet is illegal, which is clearly not the case.

> It is clear to me that they are talking about special sites where
> unlicensed software is offered.

They are not talking about "special sites", but about "every example".

Had they said "most examples", the sentence would have been much less
ambiguous about their intent.

Alain