Re: It's legal to crack Apple II copy protection

["brad" <mrbrad@ll.net>]

hit on the archive site you had listed below....got 4 hits for apple
ii...pretty much they don't seem to have anything or their search engine
sucks

( i have approx 1000 double sided disks of apple ii stuff should prob copy
that to the cdrw one of these days via the pc)

brad




"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Andy McFadden wrote:
>
> >The DMCA is, simply, the victory of corporate money over individual
rights.
>
> Agreed--and one which will almost certainly be reversed as the
> perspective of time makes its nature clearer.
>
> >It's nice that the Librarian of Congress threw the Apple II community a
> >bone and lets us crack the games to preserve them.  The absence of anyone
> >with money protesting the idea might have had something to do with it.
>
> I suspect it also has something to do with the fact that there are active
> archiving groups (not hobbyists) who are attempting to preserve the
> legacy of the beginning of the computer age for history.  They have
> been quite lucid about the risks of permanent loss of uncopyable
> material as media decays or becomes otherwise unreadable.
>
> As we know, the only persistent bits are bits that are continually
> re-copied onto newer media to keep up with technology evolution.
> Copy protection prevents this preservative act, and therefore,
> without circumvention, dooms the protected bits to oblivion.
>
> The issue of who can access the preserved information, and how
> much, and for what purpose can all be worked out in time, but
> the bits must be preserved now, or forever hold your peace.
>
> (See, for example:  http://www.archive.org/ )
>
> -michael
>
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