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by Anonymous User on Fri Nov 19, 2004 at 06:43:47 PM PDT

Quite aside from your views in this matter, you distort the legal language -- as does MS in many of its lawsuits and press releases about them -- in transforming the act of making an unauthorized copy or reproduction of a copyright work into "counterfeiting". It is, no less and no more, simply infringement of copyright and is actionable in law -- as MS pleadings fully demonstrate -- under the Copyright Act as an infringement of copyright. Think about it. Counterfeiting of currency or trademark consists of creating a replica that is deceptively like the original. It smacks of intent to mislead by passing off the replica as an original -- not making an unauthorized copy by use of digital technology, a photocopy machine, etc. \ "Piracy" as innovated by BSA and likewise promoted by commercial producers/distributors (not authors such as working creators) of copyright protected works as an criminal-like surrogate label for copyright infringement is similarly "dice-loading" mischaracterization for PR or attitude-influencing ends. This kind of deceptive/misleading misuse and transpositional use of language that has different origin and both common and legal meaning in order to most strongly express opprobrium does nothing to advance serious engagement in discourse directed to substantive exchange of views.

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