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From: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman)
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Subject: Re: ABC's Nightline and Software Piracy
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Date: Tue, 30-Aug-83 09:58:17 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 30 09:58:17 1983
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Speaking from a Canadian viewpoint, Kenneth Almquist is right
about the different between "breaking and entering with intent
to commit an indictable offense [analogous to your `felony']"
and trespassing. However, our Criminal Code provides (as your
statutes might too, I don't know) that if you're caught breaking
into a house the onus is on you to prove that you were *not*
intending to commit an indictable offense. Try extending that
one to computers. (Obviously, it's not appropriate. My impression
is that more people break into systems for the fun of it that in
order to, say, steal or destroy information [which may not be a
criminal offense anyway, but let's not get into that..)

Dave Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada
Toronto
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