Ruling legalizes purchase, use, resale of stolen software
Your Hearsay section on May 7 quotes the [Sixth District Court of Appeal] ruling that tried to compare software to pies. It is incredible that such an analogy was even attempted, but when it was it was grossly inaccurate. In the ruling, in which the court likened the seller of software to a seller of pies and the purchaser as a pie eater, the decision concluded that it is legal to buy or obtain binary software from a third party with the full knowledge that the software includes stolen trade secrets and even when the purchaser is served with a judgment confirming that the software is stolen. According to the court, the party that is buying/using the stolen software is unstoppable and unpunishable under any condition either as a common thief or a trade secret thief. Basically the purchaser is free to procure/use the stolen software.
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