Submitted by: arnesr
Source: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,35827,00
Italy: Software Piracy OK, Sorta
8:00 a.m. Apr. 21, 2000 PDT MILAN -- A judge in Turin has ruled that it is not a crime to copy software as long as it is not done for profit and the pirated copies are not sold to third parties, Italian newspapers reported on Friday. Corriere della Sera and other papers reported the case of a Turin businessman who made copies of word-processing, accounting, and design
software for use in his company.
But even though he saved money by paying only one license fee, the judge ruled that since he had not sold on the copied software to others, he did not act "for profit."
