On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 15:24:22 +0200 lee <[email protected]> wrote: > Celejar <[email protected]> writes: > > > You do not cite any sources for your various assertions, and I believe > > you are incorrect as a matter of US law. > > American law doesn't apply here. Letting that aside: What is a copy? > When you duplicate software, you get an identical duplicate which is > indistinguishable from other duplicates of the same software.
Are you raising some sort of philosophical objection to the law, or actually explaining what you think the law is? > It's the same when archiving bills, for example. They seem to have come > up with some law in Germany that requires you to store "the original" > document --- which is bullshit because you can duplicate the document as > many times as you want, and there isn't such a thing as an "original" > anymore. (Got a new storage system/media and copied the data over? Had > to recover from a backup? Defragmented the file system? Bad luck, > because thinking in these terms means you violate the law when you do > that because you don't have "the original" anymore ...) I don't know > what became of it and how people are supposed to deal with an impossible > requirement like that. Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
