Re: Different Idea... (WAS Re: Net piracy?)

[jeffr@bmerha2a.bnr.ca (Jeffrey Robertson)]

In article <30vft0$fo0@crl4.crl.com>, David K. Leikam <dkl@crl.com> wrote:
>   Jeffrey, I think this will interest you, if no-one else.

I hope not, otherwise we're both wasting bandwidth!  :-)

>   Many software licenses forbid not just reverse-engineering, but 
>ALTERATION, of the software. However you define that.

Quite true.  I wonder if those licences will prove as indefesible as
the old shrinkwrap licences.

>   Shouldn't we all stop using file-compressors? It does violate many 
>license agreements. And aren't the people who write these things, guilty 
>of (at least!) encouraging violations? Shouldn't they be sued/prosecuted 
>to make them stop this practice?

For that matter, when you install on a hard drive, you're (trivially)
altering the software - the path where it looks for files.


Interesting though this topic is, I suggest it end here, since it
applies to software licences generally, and not to the Lost Classics CD
idea, which is more applicable to the Apple II.

Cheers,
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