Re: Orphaned software and legal recourse

[Norman Bauman nbauman@xxxxxxxx]

I don't think there's any ethical reason not to copy orphaned software if
the company that owns it is gone and there is no way of contacting them.

As a practical matter, if the company is gone, there's no one to sue you
for copyright infringement either. The Software Publishers Association once
told me that when they investigate a company for piracy after a tip, they
only look for their members' software. They ignore piracy of non-members'
software.

Norman


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