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Re: Hail the crackers! They have preserved our past forever.
- Subject: Re: Hail the crackers! They have preserved our past forever.
- From: "Peter de Vroomen" <peterv[at][spamblock]jaytown[dot]com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 15:50:24 +0200
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
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> 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