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To: Alex who wrote (50895)	3/30/2000 7:10:00 AM
From: William Harvey	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116929

Exciting read, Alex! Here's grist for the "Western Web" as perhaps the force behind paper gold: Video game makers sue Yahoo! in piracy complaint biz.yahoo.com Pirated software is simply a software 'derivative' of the real thing. The question is not whether eBay or Yahoo! will adopt a software copyright 'gold standard' but what penalties they must pay for not doing so sooner. Do we argue about whether there should be more than one trademark/copyright office? Why should a gold standard be any different? The system works. Foreign and domestic companies can force adherence to a standard value. How many years will they be in business if they don't? I just didn't think it would take this long. WH