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Re: Roy breaks the law again...

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Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxx> espoused:
> After takin' a swig o' grog, Erik Funkenbusch belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> 
>> On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 04:40:26 GMT, yttrx wrote:
>>
>>> Erik Funkenbusch <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:47:16 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> http://tinyurl.com/gbbfq
>>>> 
>>>> There you go breaking copyright laws again.
>>>> 
>>>> I especially like the part at the bottom where you fraudulently claim
>>>> Microsoft has copyrighted your work.
>>>> 
>>>> Parody protection does not extend to fraud, nor does it allow you to copy
>>>> images (such as logo's) that are copyrighted works without permission.
>>> 
>>> Man, if I were Roy, you'd be in court so fast (and losing every shirt
>>> you have) you wouldn't even have time to post about it.
>>
>> He can't take me to court when it's true, which it is.  This isn't the
>> first time he's violated copyright law.  The last time, the author spent
>> weeks trying to get him to remove a copyrighted work from his site.
>> Eventually, he took it down... i'd assume because his ISP was about to
>> terminate his connectivity.
> 
> So why are you linking to it?
> 

I'd say that he's perhaps trying to intimidate Roy.  If so, that would
be illegal in itself.

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