Hawkwind: Re: Official Post From Hawkwind

[Jill Strobridge]

I have to say I entirely agree with Frank on this one.  The legal system
sees no subtleties or niceties of argument once a decision has been made
and if you are instructed to do something then that's it:

- nor all our piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line -
nor all our tears wash out a word of it
<with apologies to Omar Khayyam - and Edward Fitzgerald> !

I suspect that is the reason behind this post but doubtless we shall
hear more in due course.
jill
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Jill Strobridge <jill at theta-orionis.freeserve.co.uk>
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Weil" <frankw at STC.CORP.MOT.COM>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 10:04 PM
Subject: Re: Official Post From Hawkwind


> >From: Andrew Garibaldi<Deadearnest at BTOPENWORLD.COM>
>
> >It probably stems from most record companies' historic complete
inability to
> >(or be willing to) distinguish between a bootlegger and a
> >counterfeiter/pirater
> I agree with this, and I want to add something from a different
perspective.
> DISCLAIMER: I have *no* inside information to the band's reasonings,
so do not read
> too much into the rest of this message!
>
> It is often the case that business decisions are made from the
perspective of what
> is required to have a legal footing in a sometimes-seemingly-unrelated
matter. I am
> not very familiar with English law, but at least in America we have a
legal system,
> not a justice system. (The legal system would like to have you believe
that they are
> the same thing, but they are not.) The legal system says that certain
conditions
> have to be met in order to pursue a legal action.