At 8:41 AM +1000 9/7/00, Steve Taylor wrote:
>>>While I am on the subject, can someone please send me a Director 8 Mac
>>>stub projector with this startmovie code:
>
>> Gee, when did this list become warez-l? |:-(
>
>Think about it:
>
>- A legitimate owner of Director for Windows has the right to make a
>.dir file.
>- A legitimate owner of Director for Mac has the right to make
>projectors, and to sell them.
>- Unless there's some bloody strange fine print on the contract, I
>assume that one can also give away a projector one has made.
>
>I don't see where 'warez' come into it. Yes, Macromedia is being
>deprived of some income in the sense that someone doesn't have to go and
>buy a seperate Mac version, but I don't see any violation of the law.
You *purchase* the right to distribute Macromedia's runtime code. Legally,
this right is subject to their Runtime Licensing Agreement which states in
bold at the very top of the page:
This agreement must be signed and return to Macromedia prior to
distribution of any publisher product.
It simply seems a bit unethical to me to distribute a projector with the
sole purpose of bypassing the need to purchase a legitimate copy of the
authoring tool and obtain the right of distribution yourself. I even
recall one prominent Director website which was *selling* such runtime
projectors.
Then again, you could always use Shockwave. ;-)
Anyway, I didn't mean to cause a huge debate which is why I kept my post to
a single line comment originally.
Regards,
Terry
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