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In most of those examples those with the shovels get slaughtered.

Any individual toaster design is indeed under copyright. If another company makes a toaster that looks exactly the same, they've violated it.
If you make a toaster with a particularly nifty feature,...

Wait, wait, you're giving the impression here that no EULA is ever binding. That's not true, of course.

EULAs are a tricky thing. As I explained earlier, they only work because when software is...

I don't understand why intellectual and creative effort going into the creation of software should be any different than intellectual and creative effort going into the creation of music.

Neither...

I can't agree with that. How are they entirely different?

Speaking of the DMCA, this is probably interesting:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/12/18/BU71052.DTL

Can't find anything on the case of the serial cracker...

No, I don't think so. The important action here is going to the store and buying the software/book. There is an implicit contract in doing so, between you and the store. The content of this contract...

Not in any legislation I know. You don't ever agree to any "copyright agreement". Copyright is an inherent right of the creator, and violators can be prosecuted even if they violated the right...

No mistake. "Software as a physical object" isn't a hypothesis where we have to guess how the law would work. We know how it would work, because it would work the same way as with any other physical...

You don't have every right to distribute copies of what you own. Where'd you get that idea? That's the entire point of copyright.

However, once the end user actually owns the software, EULAs are...

I asked my law student friend, and while he's not authoritative by any means, he agrees with me that a pure downloader cannot be prosecuted under Austrian law.

Under the assumption that I know that the uploader doesn't have the right to upload the file (which is probably reasonable in the case of music), you might be able to get me for assistance in the...

For example: the one doing the copying is the one who uploads a file. So classically, downloading a file is not illegal in many countries, only making it available for downloading is.
On the other...