On Oct 5, 3:16 pm, Bret Ludwig wrote:
I have just sent Thomson a certified letter requesting clarification
of the status of this title. It's extremely doubtful, but possible,
they may issue C&D to the servers offering it. If you want it,
on .pdf, DOWNLOAD IT NOW.

Thomson have nothing to do with the RDH4 copright; the thief Bret
Ludwig blowing smoke in your face. If you want to know why, come
follow the threads on RAT.

If they do, they won't bother anyone who has it if they don't
publicly distribute it. Copyright is challengeable if it exists at
all because it's been out for years and they did nothing.

But you will know you're a thief, won't you?

One can only steal what can be stolen, and only what is owned can be
stolen. No one owns RDH 4. Not Newnes, not Audio Amateur Productions,
not Thunderfunk Amps, not Thomson, and very certainly not Andrew McCoy
d/b/a Andre Jute.

If any one did own it they would have issued a C&D by now. They have
not because they do not. They will not because they can not. At the
very least they would have allowed free distribution only with
attribution, which they have not asked for.

You are a liar, a thief, a mountebank, and probably a mattoid,
Andrew.

This comes down to, "We stole it so often, it is now ours."

When will you write to the Newnes imprint of Reed-Elseviers, Bratzi,
to dob in that little list of copyright thieves?
cReed Educational and Professional Publishing Ltd 1997

From Newnes at least you might get some kind of an answer. It could
even be more than just, Thanks, Dumbo, but we know.

Unsigned out of contempt for a fool and a thief