Re: Would Copy II+ be illegal today

["Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@attglobal.net>]

You have a legal right to make an archival backup copy of software that you
have legally obtained.

Tom Zuchowski

"SlickRCBD" <Sisko@Celestial.Temple.org> wrote in message
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> I was just chatting with some people about how the movie industry sued
> when the crack for their DVD copy protection was released to the public
> (de-CSS). Under some law passed in the last 10 years it was illegal to do
> so.
>
> By that reasoning, would the old backup utilities Copy II Plus and
> Locksmith also be considered illegal programs to produce and use today?
> They were commercial programs that did esentially the same thing to 5.25"
> and 3.5" disks that the freeware de-CSS program did to DVDs.
>
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