I don't know how close the US and UK legal models are, just that they were the same at one time. What the case law rules mean is that anything not previously decided (like stealing bicycles is previously decided) are like Schrodinger's cat. Neither legal nor illegal until tested in a court. As this is an specially worded document it won't fall into any previously decided category. David >From: Robert Ameeti <robert at ameeti.net> > >Your question has no bearing on the question of whether it is legal >to do or not. You are merely saying that the person is not likely to >be sued by Microsoft. Similar to the number of persons prosecuted for >stealing bicycles. Close to zero so it must be legal and ok to do. >To base an argument for the legality on the likelihood of prosecution >doesn't sound like a very respectable society. >Robert Ameeti -- David Ledger - Freelance Unix Sysadmin in the UK. Chair of HPUX SysAdmin SIG of hpUG technical user group (www.hpug.org.uk) david.ledger at ivdcs.co.uk www.ivdcs.co.uk