BlackBird wrote:Dude you're not going to jail, and you're not going to be fined thousands of dollars for accidentally viewing some book on a Buddhist website on a book about Buddhism.
Maybe not in New Zealand. Read that "Independent" article, I'm in the UK, and I wouldn't be surprised to have "men in black" suits knocking on my door sometime soon...
BlackBird wrote:
And nothing's going to happen to this forum for allowing people to post links like that. Not when there are thousands of forums on the internet who's sole purpose it to promulgate copyrighted material. Don't you think they would be targeted long before some Buddhist forum in the distant corners of the internet gets hit for allowing a member to post a link to monastery websites misuse of a copyrighted material?
Who knows? In any case, this 'I'm unlikely to get caught, so it's alright' argument is very dubious, I could take up house burglary using the same argument
BlackBird wrote:
The idea that Dhamma Wheel or one of it's users would be had up for copyright infringement by a Buddhist author for viewing his book on a Sangha website is ridiculous...
If he's prepared to sell his books, and take lots of money for being a professor, who knows? Is he a Buddhist? Many academics writers on Buddhism are not. Even if he is forgiving, I can't see "Oxford University Press" being so forgiving, and the publishers call the shots...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_ ... _v._Becker
BlackBird wrote:
If you were downloading a dodgy torrent on pirate bay that was uploaded by RIAA/MPAA trappers who insert tracking codes in then it might be a different story - But you're not. A Buddhist author is not going to prosecute you for accidentally reading a book found on a monasteries website. The very worst case scenario is that he contacts the Monastery website and asks them to remove it.
They put Georgia state university on trial! Do you think they'd not be prepared to take on a monastery or Dhamma Wheel?
BlackBird wrote:
The only person that's caused you harm is you, not any member here...
It was a joint effort, I wouldn't have worried if that pdf link hadn't been there...