Sounds more ambiguious than clear to me.
How about this then: You agree that you will uphold a standard of conduct that refrains you from personally attacking others, regardless of their beliefs and/or ideas. Doesn't get much clearer than that. No, I meant the people running the company had to shut it down.
Yes. That's the general idea behind bankruptcy. They were not shut down because they were using pirated software. They shut down because they were unable to pay the fines. You think so?
Yes. It's also been my experience, and not necessarily because of malice either. In organizations above a certain size it is practically impossible to enforce most license agreements. The law in this case is set up so if you make something, people must agree to pay for what you've produced.
Your understanding of copyright and patent laws are somewhat disjointed. Darkhearts daughter is CLEARLY infringing on Disney and Mattels intellectual property, by reproducing an unauthorized illustration of the likenesses of characters she does not own the rights to.Since her illustration is probably not satirical or educational it isn't even protected under fair use.
Why does this forum even have a General Discussion.
Because we don't have Off Topic anymore, and nobody wants these types of discussions spilling over into the more, shall we say productive forums? I agree, it is open to abuse.
Which is probably why Australia is such a nice country, and everyone is so nice to each other.