"http://www.amiga-hardware.com" is Down??

[motrucker]

Sorry to say, but there really is NO international copyright law. No such thing. The U.S. copyright law gives the holder his lifetime (from the date of issue) plus 70 years.
"International copyright" is "usually" treated the same in the U.S. IF there is a treaty on the books that covers most of the usual commerce laws and regs with the country the author lives in.
What we need to do, is find out what this driver is, and then write a work around type driver. The original writer may {bleep} and scream, but if the code is different, he's out of the picture and the Amiga community can rest easy.
Obviously this isn't a money issue, at this point in time, just some one being a pure PITA.

[motrucker]

Argus wrote:
Good luck collecting you say?  If the violator doesn't appear in court, a default judgment is entered and even if the plaintiff can't collect right now, the pirate had better stay away from all US ports and countries *with* treaties to enforce valid judgments (e.g. bank accounts, assets).  Think it doesn't matter?...Just take a look at all those Iranian assets still frozen since 1979.

But how many Chinese assests have been frozen since their pirating started enmass? All of this gets off the point however.
My main point was simply how long a copyright holder has power over his work. I still think more than one piece of software (ie drivers in this case) is better in many ways.
I would rather write the driver myself, than tilt lances at the copyright laws.......

And if everyone thinks this isn't problem, wait until Bill Gate starts defending all of the patents he has bought up on computer hard & software! Some of them may well be Amiga related.