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Re:How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source co... by Spoom on Monday July 24, 2017 @10:21AM (#14838677)
The primary difference is that copyright infringement is a civil offense, not a criminal one, so nobody would be "going to prison".
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Re:How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source co... by yellowapple on Monday July 24, 2017 @11:14AM (#14839091)
That still leaves corporate espionage, which (last I checked) is a very severe offense. If that "source code" contained significantly-sensitive data (like medical info or info about legal cases), then there's a giant can of worms right there (and each of those worms has a surname of "Felony").
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Re:How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source co... by will_brown on Monday July 24, 2017 @10:38AM (#14838770)
Copyright Infringement is an act, and at least here in the US, an act which both criminal and civil laws provides specific penalties/remedies. On the criminal side, obviously, one of the penalties is imprisonment.
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Re:How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source co... by Spoom on Monday July 24, 2017 @11:07AM (#14839027)
Ah, I was unfamiliar with criminal penalties for copyright infringement. Could you go ahead and link me to the relevant US Code text that provides for such penalties?
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Re:How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source co... by yellowapple on Monday July 24, 2017 @11:20AM (#14839146)
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1204

This happens to be the one under which Kite would fall (since they're infringing copyright for "commercial advantage").

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Re:How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source co... by s73ver on Monday July 24, 2017 @04:00PM (#14842107)
There is such a thing, in the US at least, as criminal copyright infringement.
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