Re: Mimic Spartan(s) for me!

["Sheldon Simms" <sheldon@semanticedge.com>]

Im Artikel <P69N6.731$DA4.144785@typhoon1.ba-dsg.net> schrieb "Frank
Townsend" <ftownsen@iamdigex.net>:

> Ah, but to "acquire" a copy by downloading, you must *make* a copy.  And
> that is a copyright violation.
> 
> "Sheldon Simms" <sheldon@semanticedge.com> wrote in message
> news:9e2th6$oh8s$1@ID-76872.news.dfncis.de...
>>
>>
>> Well it sounds to me, then, that if I download an sector-edited copy of
>> Appleworks from some web page, then I haven't done anything wrong. Some
>> other loser illegally made a derivative work of Appleworks, and I just
>> happen to have acquired a copy of it.

Ok, for the sake of argument I purchase a hacked copy of Appleworks from
Mr. Scummy Pirate for $1 at a flea market and he gives me a disk, so I
didn't actually make a copy at all. Is it ok then?

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