Seth David Schoen scripsit:
> That's convenient -- you could buy, say, a copy of Xing's DVD player,
> or a copy of Cyber Patrol, and lose it on the street. If you lose it
> on the street in the right part of the world (Cambridge, Mountain View,
> Urbana, Ottawa...), somebody is likely to find it and reverse-engineer
> it -- and the copyright holder will have no obvious remedy against
> disclosure of the information thus discovered.
Shades of the AT&T bug fix tape!
But no. Sorry, but no.
The point is that *contract* law doesn't operated between the
software author and someone who acquires the software other than
by way of sale (but still legally). *Copyright* law operates
in full force, because copyrights are effective against everyone,
whether they have a contractual relationship with the author or not.
--
John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin
