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

[tolsen@netcom.com (Terry R. Olsen)]

David R. Villegas (mnementh@netcom.com) wrote:

: In this case, doing something hush hush is one thing but claiming it's legal
: is another.

I never said it was legal.  I said he had exausted all "legal" possibilities.


: I was just playing a Steve Martin album on my 8-track player.  Can I argue
: that it's legal or moral for me to copy copyrighted 8-tracks since I've
: exhausted all possible ways to get new/used ones?  (I prefer compact discs
: anyway.)

Why buy a new stereo just to play an album?

: This analogy comes to mind because Leisure Suit Larry and some of the items
: listed in the Cassandra directory are currently still available on other types
: of computers.  And financial and other productivity software is trivial to
: find on other computers as well.

Yeah, but unlike audio, these aren't able to be played on other 
platforms. You can copy your Steve Martin 8-track to cassette and the 
cassette player will play it just fine.  But you can't copy LSL to an Apple
disk and expect an Apple to run it.

hmmm...do I get this game for free (it's right here on cassandra) or do I 
buy an IBM computer so I can then buy the game...I can spend $3000 to 
play this game or I can spend $0.

: Are out-of-print items public domain or are they now just collectors' items?
: Comic books and baseball cards become out-of-print rapidly.  But I don't think
: someone could justify reproducing the comics and cards and distributing the
: reproductions.

Reproductions aren't collectors items...therefore a copy of a program 
wouldn't be worth anything to a collector, so the value of your original 
would not depreciate the slightest.

: Perhaps enough demand could cause some Apple software to go back in print.

How are they going to measure the demand when they aren't selling the 
product?


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