Anonymous

Midlands

IT Developer

Karen,

If you find a way of copying an existing Ferrari (i.e. cloning), WITHOUT taking someone else's away from them, then theft hasn't been committed. The Police would be powerless to intervene. Full stop.

Ferrari, and other makers, might form FACC (Federation Against Car Cloning), and make a lot of noise, but ask yourself what they, and legitimate car owners, have actually lost.

The answer is nothing.

The same applies to software, IF and only if, Martin is right about people only copying software they can't afford/don't really want to buy. That surely doesn't apply to o/s and office-type applications, which no one would copy 'just in case' they wanted to use it...