Re: Hail the crackers! They have preserved our past forever.

["Jonathan Herr" <dracosilver@wi.rr.com>]

"Peter de Vroomen" <peterv[at][spamblock]jaytown[dot]com> wrote in message
news:410e46a0$0$568$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl...
>
> > Of course, isn't defeating copy-protection schemes completely legal
> nowadays
> > on "obsolete platforms", according to the DMCA?
>
> Is the C64 considered an obsolete platform? Or the Spectrum?
>
> The C64 is resurrected in the C-One and the soon-to-come C64 paddle-to-TV
> gamecomputer. The Spectrum is still made in Russia, although it's an
illegal
> clone. So they're technically not an obsolete platform.
>
> Shows to prove that the DMCA is a stupid law, thought up by people whose
> vision don't go beyond three days in the future. What good is a law when
the
> good suffer as much as the bad?
>
> The DMCA ain't a law, it's an excuse.
>
> PeterV
>
>
Obsolete platform?  Well you could call the apple][ an obsolete platform by
the same thinking...

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