Re: A2 Trade/Swap ... site ...

[CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Fri, 07 Jul 2000 21:51:16 GMT, bobryan9@my-deja.com wrote:

>In article <8k1rpj$e90$1@merope.saaf.se>,
>  pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter) wrote:
>> Then what about using disk images to boot DOS 3.3 ?  Isn't that just
>> as illegal, unless you once did buy the original DOS 3.3 disks?
>
>According the the anti-piracy people, this is illegal, you are a pirate
>if you do it, you are a criminal if you do it, and you should go to
>prison.

I don't think this is entirely accurate.  DOS 3.3 is probably a bad
example because it is a copyrighted title that Apple Computer Inc. has
always allowed free distribution of as long as you respected its
license agreement.  If you own a legal copy of DOS 3.3 and you make a
disk image of it for your own personal use, that is fine.  However, if
you make that disk image available to the entire world you are
breaking the license agreement and it is therefore being illegally
distributed.  If someone who doesn't have a legal copy of DOS 3.3 were
to download a disk image of it then they would be using an illegal
copy.  The copyright in this case is to keep people from using Apple's
code as their own.

It is fairly easy to get a legal copy of any of Apple's Apple II
operating systems.

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