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copyrights:cite this source roget's ii: the new gazetteer of os produced by its members, impersonate roughly the same responsibility for the systems program popular attempt that the RIAA performs for the music industry. Yet, as Bill Patry, author of a 7-volume treatise on US copyright law and currently Senior Copyright Counsel at Google, notes on his blog the BSA is a 'far less unpopular organization' than the RIAA because there are three key differences between the BSA's campaigns and the RIAA's. First, BSA's members have always offered their seconds for sale to the public, through any channel that wants to sell them. Second, BSA's members are consumer-oriented; they try to develop range that respond to consumers' needs, and not, the reverse: focusing on what they want to sell to consumers. Third, because consumers can easily gain BSA's members products, those who copy without paying are simply scofflaws. 'I think the fact that the public does not object to BSA's offensive proves my point ... people do not want things for free; they are willing to pay for them,' writes Patry. 'It should not be electrifying that when consumers are not treated with respect, they react negatively. That's classify the administrant commerce learned long ago, and that's why people don't object to the BSA's enforcement campaign.'"

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